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Open Source
Tech Giants Adopt ‘Balanced’ Licensing Approach
Some of the largest stakeholders in the booming open-source software community have issued new licensing guidelines for developers designed to thwart aggressive or unfounded enforcement of intellectual property claims ...Full Article
Survey: Equifax Hack Highlights Open Source Insecurity
With open source software accounting for more than half of some products, process gaps are emerging for managing security. Vendors pushing approaches for monitoring software supply chains point to ...Full Article
Open Source Driving DevOps Automation
Heightened awareness about the security risks associated with open source software has increased use of disciplined DevOps practices that have improved application quality and developer productivity, a software supply ...Full Article
We’ll Be Enslaved to Proprietary Clouds Unless We Collaborate
Cross project integration is not exactly prevalent in today’s open source ecosystem, and it’s a problem. Open source projects that enable large scale collaboration and are built on a ...Full Article
Why Some Enterprises Don’t Do Open Source
As everyone knows, the code for open source software (OSS) is made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change and distribute ...Full Article
OpenStack Maturing, User Survey Finds
OpenStack proponents said their latest user survey shows that the open-source cloud-computing platform has emerged as a mature infrastructure technology with broader enterprise adoption and more deployments in production. ...Full Article
Communities of Communities: The Next Era of Open Source Software
We are now about 20 years into the open source software era. You might think that open source simply means publishing the source code for something useful. While this ...Full Article
Flaws Found in Security Software, Unlicensed Code
A flurry of industry surveys have flagged open source and unlicensed software as growing security threats. Moreover, a review released by Flexera Software also found that the very security ...Full Article
Microsoft’s Embrace of Linux Draws Ire
The elevation of Microsoft Corp. to the status of "platinum" member of the Linux Foundation has angered open source advocates who worry the software giant will flex its market ...Full Article
Binding Customers to Chains: 150M Restaurant Patrons in a Hadoop Fishbowl
Chain restaurants have a paradoxical mission: grow a mass customer base, but do so based on one successful customer experience at a time. Big data, analytics, interactive customer relationship ...Full Article
