Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)
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Will open source fix the public cloud vendor lock-in?
Over on Twi… what-shall-not-be-named, Kelsey Hightower argued that companies want on-premise back and that this is happening by on-premise product vendors copying cloud APIs in their products: It might just turn out that the cloud was the best way to research and design better ways of managing our systems, and thanks to the open source…
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Let’s celebrate relicensing from an open source to a proprietary license
tl;dr Commercial open source firms are beneficial to society, even if they eventually license away from open source, because they are exploring a search space for useful open-source software that is otherwise hard to get to. Commercial open source firms that license away from open source licenses to non-compete licenses don’t get a lot of…
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Cybersecurity risks unique to open source and what communities are doing to reduce them (Matthew L. Levy, IEEE Computer)
I’m happy to report that the 25th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Cybersecurity Risks Unique to Open Source and What Communities Are Doing to Reduce Them Keywords Public Domain Software, Risk Management, Security Of Data, Cybersecurity Risk, Open Source, Risk Areas, Source Projects Authors Matthew L. Levy…