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Open-Source Software Community Rocked by a Sophisticated Backdoor in XZ Utils

IT Toolbox

Late last month, a Microsoft engineer who volunteers for RDBMS PostgreSQL caught what is described as one of “the best executed supply chain attack we’ve seen described in the open.” The post Open-Source Software Community Rocked by a Sophisticated Backdoor in XZ Utils appeared first on Spiceworks.

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What is SONiC and how can enterprises try the open-source NOS?

Network World

Interest in the open-source network operating system SONiC is rising as major networking vendors and start-ups look to offer resources to help enterprises give SONiC a try. The Linux-based NOS was created by Microsoft for its Azure data centers and then open-sourced by Microsoft in 2017. What is SONiC?

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Microsoft: we were wrong about open source

The Verge

Microsoft has admitted it was wrong about open source, after the company battled it and Linux for years at the height of its desktop domination. Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously branded Linux “a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches” back in 2001.

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Amazon shifts Lumberyard to open source 3D game engine supported by 20 companies

Venture Beast

Amazon is contributing its Lumberyard game engine to open source, and it will be known as the Open 3D Engine. Read More.

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Linux has made it to Mars

The Verge

It’s also running on Linux. This the first time we’ll be flying Linux on Mars,” NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) senior engineer Tim Canham said in an interview with the the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Image: Wikipedia. Here’s Ingenuity! It’s called F’ (pronounced “F prime”). Great stuff.

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Open source in 2020: The future looks bright

Tech Republic Cloud

Jack Wallen offers up predictions on open source, Linux, docker engines, automation, and more for the coming year.

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Microsoft angers the.NET open source community with a controversial decision

The Verge

Microsoft has spent the past 10 years embracing open-source software and, at several points, even admitting it loves Linux and the open source community. The Linux Foundation even praised Microsoft for working with the open source community after the company joined the foundation nearly five years ago.