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Dispute between Elastic and AWS highlights ongoing battle over open source business model

GeekWire

Open source software (OSS) started as a reaction to companies like Microsoft and Oracle making “unfair” profits on software, so developers created Linux and MySQL and made them available to anyone for free. AWS is profiting from open source, and Elastic is very mad. Now OSS has gone full circle.

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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups

CTOvision

The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.

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Google and Hortonworks Team Up: HDP Now Part of Google Cloud

CTOvision

Hortonworks'' Hadoop Data Platform (HDP) is now a supported feature on Google Cloud. This new feature will allow dynamic provisioning of HDP clusters on the Google Cloud Platform, providing scalability for enterprise-wide solutions employing HDP, as well as providing a means for rapidly setting up prototyping and development environments.

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Technology Short Take 114

Scott Lowe

Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Apparently Dell’s new docking stations support firmware updates via Linux. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. These look interesting, but be aware that they are not licensed with an open source license.

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Technology Short Take 153

Scott Lowe

Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. I, personally, would posit that Linux can be more secure than other platforms, but it requires proper configuration and can still be undone by a loose nut behind the keyboard. Career/Soft Skills.

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You ever think about how Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC”

The Verge

It originally ran a custom Linux operating system that reviewers loved ( Laptop Mag ’s Mark Spoonauer said it was “ten times simpler to use than any Windows notebook”) and was generally heralded as a new kind of computer with tremendous mass appeal. We hadn’t invented the phrase “cloud services” yet.).

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Technology Short Take 170

Scott Lowe

So, here you go—here’s your latest collection of links from around the internet focused on data center and cloud-related technologies. This is a slightly older article (from January of this year) in which Josh Saul of Hedgehog pays homage to the achievements of Cumulus Networks in the open networking movement.

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