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Open Source
Google Remains Top Open-Source Contributor
Open-source software is akin to baseball and apple pie: Everyone approves, but few actually back up their commitment with code commits to the open-source community with few or no ...Full Article
Software Licensing Effort Focuses on Compliance Tools
A new project launched this week by the Linux Foundation is designed to provide standard tools for complying with the terms of open-source code licenses. The goal of the ...Full Article
IBM Jolts Cloud Market with Red Hat Deal
In a bold stroke that promises to shake up the hybrid cloud market, IBM is acquiring open source leader Red Hat. "The acquisition of Red Hat is a game-changer,” ...Full Article
Licensing Reform Movement Gathers Steam
An effort to promote balanced licensing rules for open source software is gaining momentum with the addition of 14 new companies adopting guidelines designed primarily to reduce compliance errors. ...Full Article
MS-GitHub Deal: Open Source Moves Center Stage
Microsoft’s reassurances notwithstanding, the software giant’s acquisition of GitHub, the project collaboration platform, has raised concerns about the future direction of open-source software development. Skeptics are taking a wait-and-see ...Full Article
Machine Learning: Scaling Past the Pilot Phase
In a world of cars that drive themselves and robots that do back flips, the fully automated industrial operation remains an aspiration. Limitations in real-time computing, AI and robotics ...Full Article
Microsoft ‘All In’ For Open Source with GitHub Deal
GitHub, the well-heeled and vibrant project collaboration platform for programmers, is being acquired by Microsoft as the software giant seeks to push deeper into enterprise software development. Microsoft said ...Full Article
Heptio Bucks Kubernetes Distribution Trend
As container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes make hybrid infrastructure more agile, gradually usurping the role of virtual machines, more tools are emerging from upstream developers of the open source ...Full Article
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
