Licensing Linux Open Source 
Network World
JANUARY 22, 2025
The open-source Wireshark network protocol analyzer has been a standard tool for networking professionals for decades. Those Falco libraries are based on eBPF (Enhanced Berkeley Packet Filter) technology to collect system-level data efficiently and safely from the Linux kernel.
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 27, 2024
It’s an open secret that even proprietary software contains open source components these days, and major vendors are, to varying extents, supporting or participating in open source projects. SAP’s manifesto is in reaction to the fact that all is not always sunshine and roses in the open source world.
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CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 15, 2024
Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source.
Network World
MARCH 10, 2025
The Court found that these parties had conspired to breach Winsopias license agreement in a deliberate, systematic and intentionally hidden effort to unlawfully reverse engineer critical IBM mainframe technology. IBM licensed its mainframe software to Winsopia beginning in 2013, according to the court documents.
Network World
JUNE 18, 2024
Today’s announcement is strongly positioned to substantiate the company as a supplier to enterprise of open source AI technology, without making specific assumptions of where the enterprise market really stands regarding on-prem AI. As for the software, Iams said that “open source is not always going to be cheaper than closed source.
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 31, 2024
Earthquakes in infrastructure automation The story begins in August 2023 when HashiCorp, the custodians of Terraform, the most widely-used IaC framework, announced that they were moving its license from Mozilla Public License (MPL) to Business Source License (BSL). The community struck back. There are some solid reasons.
Network World
MAY 23, 2024
Why would a smart vendor buy a company whose product(s) are open source? The only possible answer is that the buyers of the product would rather get it in commercial form than in open form. Part of the reason is that it’s hard for enterprises to hire and retain specialists on all the open-source tools they might want.
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