Open source licenses may not matter so much any more
MongoDB’s efforts to get OSI endorsement a more business-friendly SSPL have failed. MongoDB is proceeding anyhow, reflecting a possibly pivotal moment. After all the drama around MongoDB’s change of license from the...
Red Hat underpins the growing importance of Linux and open source
Red Hat’s new vice president and general manager of its RHEL Business Unit, Stefanie Chiras, enthusiastically embraces the growing importance of Linux. While you may not spend a lot of...
IBM Buying Open Source Specialist Red Hat for $34 Billion
IBM just spent $34 billion to buy a software company that gives away its primary product for free. IBM Sunday said it would acquire Red Hat, best known for its Red...
How Azure became the place for open source in the cloud
Microsoft has truly embraced open source, in a radical shift rare for a big company—and developers should be very happy. Microsoft is perhaps the most impressive company on the planet...
Microsoft’s patent move: Giant leap forward or business as usual?
Some see this as a giant leap forward for Microsoft and open source. A few, however, see Microsoft’s open-source patent move as just more of the same old, same old....
Hollywood goes open source
When you think of open-source software, you think about smartphones, servers, and the cloud. You probably don’t think about movies, but you should. Out of 200 of the most popular...
Open-source licensing war: Commons Clause
A new open-source license addendum, Commons Clause, has lawyers, developers, businesses, and open-source supporters fighting with each other. Most people wouldn’t know an open-source license from their driver’s license. For...
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...
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...
How Open Source and Proprietary IP Can Co-Exist
Open source software imparts a number of benefits, including decreasing product development time, distributing development across a community and attracting developers to your organization. However, some organizations shy away from...