Openwashing, Fakes and Traps (Inadequate Use of the "Open Source" Label)
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Open Source is a licensing model not a business model
As Open Source continues to grow its share of the software market, there are increasing questions being asked about the state of licensing. At Percona Live in Amsterdam, CEO Peter Zaitsev opened his keynote and talked about what is happening in this space. Enterprise Times caught up with him to ask a few more questions about the subject.
Zaitsev makes the point that “open source is a licensing model not a business model.” This goes back to the roots of open source where it was about freedom to use software. But things are changing. Open source companies are being sold for billions of dollars and VC’s are now investing millions in the expectation of a positive financial gain.
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Open Source Week to be marked in South Africa
Now, there are “open source” companies in various guises: some make their source code available but not some additional proprietary elements that may be included. This is sometimes referred to as “open core” or “source open”.
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Ontotext's GraphDB 9.0 Open-sources its Front-end and Engine Plugins to Empower Knowledge Graph Solutions
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Illumina, Broad Institute Collaborate on Secondary Genome Analysis Software
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Illumina and the Broad Co-Developing Open-Source Secondary Analysis Software
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A Conference to Find Viable Business Models to Commercialize Open Source Software
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Open Source’s Rocky Week Provides Ample Food For Thought
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Guidebook Releases a Free, Open Source API to Accelerate Native Mobile Apps Creation
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Guidebook Introduces Open-Source API for Mobile App Development
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SmartDV Adds Support for Verilator Open Source HDL Verilog Simulator
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Adaptable, flexible and open source: the wish list for young engineers
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Xilinx Unveils Vitis, Breakthrough Open-Source Design Software For Adaptable Processing Enginesil
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Mellanox Supports Solutions for SONiC Open Source Network Operating System
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Mellanox embraces open-source SONiC operating system
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F1 teams back open-source designs proposal
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Mercedes: Open-source designs in F1 'worth exploring'
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Mercedes feel open-source system of designs are "worthy of exploring"
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Why leading Formula 1 teams back 'copycat' open source design idea
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Teams open to open-source
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Hazelcast Enhances Open Source Ecosystems with In-Memory Speed
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Facebook open-sources data set for code search AI benchmark
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GitHub Releases Dataset of Six Million Open-Source Methods for Code Search Research
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GitHub Brings Semmle Aboard to Weed Out Code Vulnerabilities
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Enea teams up with flexiWAN and Intel on open source SD-WAN PoC
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Enea Partners with Flexiwan and Intel for Open Source, Secure SD-WAN
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Alluxio Responds to Enterprise Cloud Adoption by Bolstering Go-To-Market Team with Appointment of Vice President, Global Sales and Business Development
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Ripple’s Xpring makes host of updates to XRP ledger and Interledger
Ripple’s Xpring team, which launched as a grant program for projects utilizing the cryptocurrency XRP, has now expanded its remit within Ripple. Xpring now has 32 employees, including nine new engineers, and will be aggressively building out the developer toolkit for the XRP blockchain—making it easier to integrate XRP into applications.
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ChainFront API service for blockchain apps now open source
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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
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