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lagniappe
The title is "Supporting the BEAM Community with Free CI/CD Security Audits"

There is no need to editorialize the title.

kamilap
in OPs defense, there are people that already commented that "BEAM" part wasn't clear to them
mananaysiempre
Highlights (emphasis mine):

> Open source maintainers can request a free license by emailing safe@erlang-solutions.com and including a link to their [GitHub] repository. Once approved, we provide a SAFE license for one month or up to a year, depending on the project’s needs, at no cost.

The legalese[1] (is incoherent but apparently) does not pass the Curl test, that is, the maintainer of Curl—who gets money by providing commercial support for his completely FOSS project—wouldn’t be allowed to use this had it applied to him:

> You can only use SAFE for open-source software. Any commercial use is prohibited.

[1] https://www.erlang-solutions.com/policies/safe-for-open-sour...

victorbjorklund
Is it just me or does the font look really stretched out on the site?
Animats
Took a while to find out what BEAM was. It's the run-time interpreter for Erlang.[1]

It's not in Acronym Finder. There are many hits for BEAM, but this isn't in the top 10.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine)

giancarlostoro
Not just Erlang, but all the other languages like Elixir (powers Discord), Gleam and others.
jonathanlydall
I guess you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000 (as per XKCD).

I’ve never really looked into Erlang or other similar languages, but it’s come up often enough on HN that I know of BEAM.

citizenpaul
I've seen BEAM mentioned several times on here in the last few months. Is there some sort of thing going on with erlang that I'm out of the loop on?