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Restricted Source Licensing Is Here

Forrester IT

Open source has taken the enterprise by storm. What was once seen as risky code, developed in suburban basements, has taken on new life. Major software companies employ teams of full-time workers to write and contribute code to open source projects. are contributing back […]

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Software vendors dump open source, go for the cash grab

Computerworld Vertical IT

Essentially, all software is built using open source. By Synopsys' count, 96% of all codebases contain open-source software. Unless you're a developer, chances are you've never heard of it.) Lately, though, there's been a very disturbing trend. I'm sick of it. The latest IT melodrama baddie is Redis.

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AI development booms as open source startups fill the gap

Dataconomy

Runa Capital’s ROSS Index highlights the growing market for AI and open-source technologies, tracking the rapid expansion of this sector. These efforts showcase the diverse, evolving nature of AI and open-source ventures. It reflects an increasingly vibrant ecosystem fueled by technological advancements.

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After Log4j, Open-Source Software Is Now a National Security Issue

Gizmodo

For years, developers of free, open-source software have been telling anyone who will listen that their projects needs better financial assistance and more oversight. Now, after a number of disastrous incidents involving open-source code, the federal government and Silicon Valley may finally be listening.

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NSA Releases A New Technology to Open Source Community

CTOvision

Here is their press release : NSA Releases First in Series of Software Products to Open Source Community. The software is “open source,” which means its code is available to the public – in this case, through the Apache Software Foundation. Witt is the Lead Developer of Nifi.

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Windows and Microsoft Office are being replaced with Linux and LibreOffice in this German state

TechSpot

"In addition to improved IT security, cost-effectiveness, and data protection, the use of open-source software also enables seamless collaboration between different systems," officials said. Alongside open-source software development, the goal is to release future development results of the country under free licenses."

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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.