Openwashing Cisco, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon

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What Lives in Cisco's Digitized Spaces?
Pretty much anything that’s important, which is why it needs to be an open-source incubator that turns this concept into reality.
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LinkedIn's early investment in start-up Confluent has become a 50-fold gain for Microsoft
When Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $27 billion in 2016, the deal brought with it a small equity investment that's turned into a surprising windfall.
Two years before the acquisition, LinkedIn invested about $500,000 as part of a $6.9 million venture round in a fledgling spin-out called Confluent, which was setting out to commercialize the Apache Kafka open-source software. It was LinkedIn's first such investment, and valued Confluent at about $24 million.
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Apple: Trust us, we've patented parts of Swift, and thus chunks of other programming languages, for your own good
Apple has, over the past few years, quietly and successfully patented, in the US at least, various aspects of Swift.
That's the programming language the iPhone-slinging biz open sourced in 2015 under the Apache 2.0 license with a Runtime Library Exception.
In the past day or so, developers working with the language have highlighted on Swift discussion forum Cupertino's intellectual property land-grab, expressing concern that the patents – which are assigned to Apple rather than the Swift project – may expose those writing Swift applications to future legal jeopardy.
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Amazon Web Services boosts open source credentials
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Challenges and Tips for Taking Legacy Systems to the Cloud
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Amazon Open Sources SageMaker Neo To Run Machine Learning Models At The Edge
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digiKam 7.7.0 is released
After three months of active maintenance and another bug triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.7.0 of its open source digital photo manager. See below the list of most important features coming with this release.
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Dilution and Misuse of the "Linux" Brand
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Samsung, Red Hat to Work on Linux Drivers for Future Tech
The metaverse is expected to uproot system design as we know it, and Samsung is one of many hardware vendors re-imagining data center infrastructure in preparation for a parallel 3D world.
Samsung is working on new memory technologies that provide faster bandwidth inside hardware for data to travel between CPUs, storage and other computing resources. The company also announced it was partnering with Red Hat to ensure these technologies have Linux compatibility.
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