Information Week

AUGUST 12, 2022

Open-source software is more than a license. Below are three recent case studies of OSS being relicensed or going rogue, each providing a practical guide for vetting and using OSS.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Elastic cofounder and CEO Shay Banon discusses the Elasticsearch open source license switch, and what being "free and open" really means. Read More.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 13, 2022

For years, developers of free, open-source software have been telling anyone who will listen that their projects needs better financial assistance and more oversight. Now, after a number of disastrous incidents involving open-source code, the federal government and Silicon Valley may finally be listening.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Here is their press release : NSA Releases First in Series of Software Products to Open Source Community. The software is “open source,” which means its code is available to the public – in this case, through the Apache Software Foundation. New technology automates high-volume data flows.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 26, 2024

Runa Capital’s ROSS Index highlights the growing market for AI and open-source technologies, tracking the rapid expansion of this sector. These efforts showcase the diverse, evolving nature of AI and open-source ventures. It reflects an increasingly vibrant ecosystem fueled by technological advancements.

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TechSpot

MARCH 20, 2023

John Deere has been recently called out for its inability to properly handle open-source software according to the GPL license. Read Entire Article

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Dataconomy

MAY 10, 2023

Open source business intelligence software is a game-changer in the world of data analysis and decision-making. With open source BI software, businesses no longer need to rely on expensive proprietary software solutions that can be inflexible and difficult to integrate with existing systems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

AI coding agents are poised to take over a large chunk of software development in coming years, but the change will come with intellectual property legal risk, some lawyers say. The same thing could happen with software code, even though companies don’t typically share their source code, he says. How was the AI trained?

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Open source software (OSS) started as a reaction to companies like Microsoft and Oracle making “unfair” profits on software, so developers created Linux and MySQL and made them available to anyone for free. AWS is profiting from open source, and Elastic is very mad. Now OSS has gone full circle.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 13, 2015

Available to the public through NGA’s GitHub account, the software can be useful in many situations,” said Chris Rasmussen, NGA’s public software development lead. Releasing MrGeo helps further the agency’s goal of increasing and streamlining co-creation efforts in software and unclassified data, said Rasmussen.

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CTOvision

MAY 7, 2014

They are: geoevents: The GeoEvents project is a dynamic and customizable open source web presence that provides a common operational picture to consolidate activities, manage content, and provides a single point of discovery. We would appreciate acknowledgement if the software is used. ” Pull requests. In the News.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 12, 2022

Results point to a clear desire for license cost savings, code portability and strong community backing offered by open source technologies. Read More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Have you ever met an Oracle customer who happily pays the company’s fees for software support? There’s not much incentive for large vendors to provide prolonged support for software they’d just as soon discard into the end-of-life bin. Neither have we. Rimini Street is different. When was your last database health check?

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SPF13

JULY 21, 2010

My take on open source licenses. Open Source licensing can be a confusing and daunting task. Most developers simply adopt licenses of other popular projects. I wanted to shed some light on the most popular licenses and provide some guidance on which one should be used and when. Open source.

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GeekWire

JUNE 11, 2024

(LinkedIn Photos) Seattle startup Cyrus Biotechnology is spinning out a business that will expand access to the company’s software technology, with the potential of supporting innovation in drug development, agriculture, synthetic biology and manufacturing. Tech companies are really good at what they do.

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CTOvision

JULY 21, 2015

The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 3, 2024

A VMware licensing cost increase of 150%. For many VMware customers, the licensing model and price changes were abrupt. Facing backlash from existing customers, Broadcom has attempted to explain the new product and licensing model with a hope that current customers can manage the transition. An increase of 300%.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The nonprofit consortium MLCommons has released a massive, license-free dataset for speech recognition system development and testing. Read More.

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Information Week

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

When implementing open source software, look beyond the license terms to understand who is driving change on the software.

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Kitaboo

MAY 23, 2023

Welcome to the ultimate guide to unlocking the secrets of software-based DRM! In this comprehensive guide, we will delve into the fascinating world of Digital Rights Management (DRM) and explore how it is implemented in software applications. Table of Contents: What is Software-based DRM? How Does Software-based DRM Work?

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 28, 2014

CTOs should consider having their development teams take advantage of free, entry-level versions of software – known as freemium software – to test out the functions of commercial products. Remember back when software was simple? The whole mood in enterprise software development is about being iterative, collaborative and agile.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Google is ending development on the virtual reality painting app Tilt Brush — one of the most well-known VR applications — and making it open source. Tilt Brush’s code can be accessed on GitHub now , but Google says some features had to be removed from the open-source release because of licensing restrictions.

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SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. The Software Era: ? Open Source is taking over the world. Transcript.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 6, 2022

Grafana Labs is replacing Apache 2-licensed Cortex with Mimir, which is broader in scope and licensed under the more restrictive AGPLv3. Read More.

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TechSpot

APRIL 5, 2024

"In addition to improved IT security, cost-effectiveness, and data protection, the use of open-source software also enables seamless collaboration between different systems," officials said. Alongside open-source software development, the goal is to release future development results of the country under free licenses."

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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.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Some context from that site: Welcome to the DARPA Open Catalog, which contains a curated list of DARPA-sponsored software and peer-reviewed publications. The DARPA Open Catalog organizes publically releasable material from DARPA programs, beginning with the XDATA program in the Information Innovation Office (I2O).

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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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Kitaboo

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This article will cover the basics of authoring software, how it can help you design effectively for the web, and much more! What is an Authoring Software? Authoring software is used to create content to publish online. Content creators use authoring software to write, design, and format web pages, books, magazines, and more.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In my list of planned 2017 projects , I mentioned that one thing I’d like to do this year is launch an open source book project. Well, I’m excited to announce The Open vSwitch Cookbook , an Apache 2.0-licensed licensed book project aimed at providing “how to” recipes for Open vSwitch (OVS).

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2021

Proctorio, a piece of exam surveillance software designed to keep students from cheating while taking tests, relies on open-source software that has a history of racial bias issues, according to a report by Motherboard. The software failed to recognize black faces more than half the time.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 13, 2016

Open source software is critical to the modern enterprise software landscape. Alluxio is open source under the Apache license, and we are committed to maintaining this model. Alluxio is one of the fastest growing open source projects in the Big Data ecosystem.

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Venture Beast

MAY 6, 2022

GitLab, an open source code repository and collaborative software development platform, was awarded a software licensing reseller agreement with the State of California. Read More.

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Tech Republic

MAY 1, 2022

The post PDF Converter Pro: Lifetime License appeared first on TechRepublic. Convert All Types of Documents into a Wide Variety of Formats, Efficiently & Accurately.

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Venture Beast

JUNE 23, 2021

The Linux Foundation has announced a new permissive license designed to help foster collaboration around open data for AI projects. Read More.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 17, 2021

The situation with software is similar. You can't realistically fix all of the software vulnerabilities, but you can try and find and fix an increasing number of vulnerabilities to make it more reliable and more secure, along the way. SOFTWARE IS ASSEMBLED. And how many barriers you feel comfortable putting into place.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

First, let me start by saying none of this is about open source or free software. Licensing of software, while extremely important, is not the focus here. What I’d like to talk about right now are some pretty high-level things—laying out the ground rules, if you will, for what I’m trying to accomplish.

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