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NGA and DigitalGlobe Release Powerful Application To Community Under Open Source License

CTOvision

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Sharing the application with the open source community helps accelerate its potential to become the standard for storing, enriching and analyzing massive amounts of raster data in a distributed cloud environment. By Bob Gourley.

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

GeekWire

Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Daniel Li , partner at Madrona Venture Group, which first appeared in his weekly newsletter The DL. AWS is profiting from open source, and Elastic is very mad. AWS is profiting from open source, and Elastic is very mad. Now OSS has gone full circle.

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Take control of your Oracle unlimited licensing agreement

CIO Business Intelligence

Frequently, organizations are looking not just to trim costs, but for value-added services that few software vendors may be willing to provide.

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Hortonworks Named a Leader in Big Data Hadoop Distributions Report

CTOvision

Hortonworks is a rock when it comes to its promise to offer a 100% open source distribution. All of the technology built into HDP is an Apache open source project. For example, Hortonworks acquired XA Secure, a company with a commercially licensed security solution, and contributed the code to Apache as Apache Ranger.

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Nvidia says its ‘proprietary information’ is being leaked by hackers

The Verge

Hacking group Lapsus$ has claimed responsibility for the attack, and has demanded that Nvidia make its drivers open-source if it doesn’t want more data leaked. We request that NVIDIA commits to COMPLETELY OPEN-SOURCE (and distribute under a foss license) their GPU drivers”.

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Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model

Vox

But more importantly, its open source nature adds new urgency to an important ethical debate over who should control AI — and whether it can be made safe. Zuckerberg also made the case for why it’s better for leading AI models to be “open source,” which means making the technology’s underlying code largely available for anyone to use.

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Meet Mistral 7B, Mistral’s first LLM that beats Llama 2

Dataconomy

One notable aspect of Mistral 7B is its open-source nature, released under the Apache 2.0 license By using software licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, for example, end users are guaranteed a license to any patents covered by the software. license By using software licensed under the Apache 2.0

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