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Microsoft, Salesforce plan to open source major enterprise software products

Both firms will give away software that gave them a competitive edge, a reflection of changing times. Microsoft and Salesforce have separately announced plans to release some key software products as open source for anyone to use in their data centers. Microsoft plans to release its Open Network Emulator (ONE), a simulator of its entire … Read more

GitHub’s tool reduces open source software license violations

Called Licensed, the tool finds license dependencies early in the development life cycle. GitHub has open-sourced its Licensed tool, a Ruby gem that caches and verifies the status of license dependencies in Git repos. Licensed has helped GitHub engineers who use open source software find potential problems with license dependencies early in the development cycle. … Read more