Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)
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The fiercer the competition, the more companies open source
How come that companies like IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft are leading so much open source these days? How is it possible that they harmoniously (most of the time anyway) collaborate with each other at the Apache Software Foundation or even Linux Foundation, while they fight each other to the bone in front of the customer?…
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FOSS compliance intensive seminar June 14-15th, 2018 in Berlin (in German)
Catharina Maracke’s Software Compliance Academy writes to us:
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Understanding industry requirements for FLOSS governance tools
Abstract: Almost all software products today incorporate free/libre, and open source software (FLOSS) components. Companies must govern their FLOSS use to avoid potential risks to their intellectual property resulting from the use of FLOSS components. A particular challenge is license compliance. To manage the complexity of license compliance, companies should use tools and well-defined processes to…