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Openwashing Leftovers

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 27th of January 2019 04:11:36 AM Filed under
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  • Aspiring To Be The Windows, Not The Linux, Of Networks

    But Arrcus, which launched its closed source ArcOS as it dropped out of stealth last July, is bucking that open source trend and it explicitly doesn’t want to be the Linux of networking. Rather, it wants to be the Windows Server of networking, which it thinks is a better economic model for a startup than the open source code and enterprise support model preferred by Linux distributors and those creating applications and tools for Linux.

    Not everyone will agree with that assessment, particularly with IBM shelling out $34 billion to acquire Red Hat two decades after the world’s largest open source software packager and supporter went public. But red hat is the exception, not the rule, when it comes to creating profitable businesses based on open source software. Various projects – and we are thinking specifically of those who created Hadoop data analytics stacks, but various databases and adjunct tools for clusters come to mind – sopped up tremendous amounts of venture backing, which we think it will be very hard to get back through profits, going public, an acquisition by a bigger entity, or some combination these approaches. We like the Linux model when it comes to development, but it is hard to make money at it when the largest customers can self-support and it takes a long time for these technologies to trickle down to the masses who don’t have the technical chops to self-support and have to pay for help.

  • AWS launches Neo-AI, an open-source tool for tuning ML models

    AWS isn't exactly known as an open-source powerhouse, but maybe change is in the air.

  • Amazon Web Services creates new open-source project called Neo-AI
  • Microsoft buys open-source startup for bolstering cloud business
  • Microsoft acquires Turkish open-source company Citus Data
  • Ockam SDK taps blockchain-based identity services for IoT [Ed: Microsoft/NSA (PRISM) surveillance]
  • Etherisc to begin open sourcing its decentralized insurance protocol
  • Requests for info, gag orders and takedowns fired at GitHub users hit an all-time high last year

    Microsoft-owned code repo GitHub has received twice as many requests for user information in 2018 as the prior year, noting a disproportionate rise in accompanying gag orders.

    As GitHub said in its 2018 Transparency Report, the total number of requests was small as things go – a mere 112 – and apart from two that hint at someone lawyering up, they covered a relatively minor number of accounts.

    The organisation has processed 78 of the requests it received and within that disclosed information on 66. Two of those requests covered a surprising 3,673 user accounts (which looks to El Reg like someone objecting to the same content in a lot of places).

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