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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

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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

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Open Source Driving DevOps Automation

Heightened awareness about the security risks associated with open source software has increased use of disciplined DevOps practices that have improved application quality and developer productivity, a software supply ...Full Article

Why Some Enterprises Don’t Do Open Source

As everyone knows, the code for open source software (OSS) is made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change and distribute ...Full Article

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OpenStack Maturing, User Survey Finds

OpenStack proponents said their latest user survey shows that the open-source cloud-computing platform has emerged as a mature infrastructure technology with broader enterprise adoption and more deployments in production. ...Full Article

Communities of Communities: The Next Era of Open Source Software

We are now about 20 years into the open source software era. You might think that open source simply means publishing the source code for something useful. While this ...Full Article

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Flaws Found in Security Software, Unlicensed Code

A flurry of industry surveys have flagged open source and unlicensed software as growing security threats. Moreover, a review released by Flexera Software also found that the very security ...Full Article

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Microsoft’s Embrace of Linux Draws Ire

The elevation of Microsoft Corp. to the status of "platinum" member of the Linux Foundation has angered open source advocates who worry the software giant will flex its market ...Full Article

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Binding Customers to Chains: 150M Restaurant Patrons in a Hadoop Fishbowl

Chain restaurants have a paradoxical mission: grow a mass customer base, but do so based on one successful customer experience at a time. Big data, analytics, interactive customer relationship ...Full Article