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Linux Foundation and Openwashing

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 1st of May 2020 11:55:41 PM Filed under
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    Conferences, summits, forums, and other events have been canceled worldwide in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. These events are one of the most common ways technology professionals keep their skills and knowledge up to date, so these cancellations have a huge impact on the community. We’ve compiled some alternative ways of meeting this need below.

  • Announcing Vitess 6

    Vitess now understands much more of MySQL’s syntax. We have taken the approach of studying the queries issued by common applications and frameworks, and baking them right into the end-to-end test suite.

    Common issues such as SHOW commands not returning correct results or MySQL’s SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS feature have now been fixed. In Vitess 7, we plan to add support for setting session variables, which will address one of the largest outstanding compatibility issues.

  • A guide to open source software for procurement professionals

    The first and most important step in negotiating any agreement is always to get the facts. For example, when negotiating a software development agreement, the developers for both parties probably assume that the software will include many pre-existing components written by third parties. If the procurement and legal personnel negotiating the agreement assume that there should be no code that is not written by the vendor, the process will be inefficient and waste a lot of everyone’s valuable time.

    If developers are confronted with ridiculous assumptions about writing software from scratch, the credibility of the procurement process is undermined, and, in the future, they will find ways to avoid or delay involving procurement and their legal counsel.

    The Linux Foundation recently published a whitepaper written by Karen Copenhaver and Steve Winslow that aims to help procurement professionals and their legal counsel avoid making erroneous factual assumptions that will undermine their credibility and delay negotiations through a better understanding of software development and the use of open source software assets. This is a summary of its findings.

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    A common perception of the GPL and its variants as being unworkable open source licenses is inaccurate. Keep in mind that the GPL, like all free and open source licenses, does not restrict your usage. As a recipient of GPL software, you have far more expansive license rights to use the software than you have under a proprietary software license agreement. Compliance with the GPL upon a redistribution of the code may be a factor to consider but should be compared with the fact that you would likely not have the right to redistribute proprietary software at all.

    A company can have a “no GPL policy,” yet it cannot operate in most industries without dependence upon the Linux operating system, which is GPL-licensed software.

    Unless your technical people agree that there should be no GPL or copyleft licensed code of any kind used in its development or provided in the work product, do not ask for a representation or warranty that there will be no copyleft software. Once again, the relevant questions related to the selection of the code, maintenance of the code, and compliance with the applicable license terms in the relevant use case.

  • Riccardo Padovani: Introducing Daintree.app: an opensource alternative implementation of the AWS console. [Ed: This won't sole the problem of AWS itself being a proprietary software surveillance trap]

    Daintree.app is a website to manage some of your AWS resources: since this is an early preview, at the moment, it supports a subset of Networking, EC2, SQS, and SNS

    The AWS Console is an amazing piece of software: it has hundreds of thousands of features, it is reliable, and it is the front end of an incredible world. However, as any software, it is not perfect: sometimes is a bit slow, so many features can be confusing, and it is clear it has evolved over time, so there are a lot of different styles, and if it would be made from scratch today, some choices would probably be different.

  • Tern 2.0.0 now available [Ed: VMware 'open' projects are controlled by Microsoft]

    Tern is a VMware-originated open source container inspection tool. Since Tern’s last release, new features and command line options have been added as a part of Tern 2.0.0, which is now generally available from PyPI. You can also clone the latest changes from GitHub.

  • Open Source Tern Locks Dockerfile to Container Image

    The team behind the open source Tern tools for scanning container images has released an update that adds the ability to lock the base image of a Dockerfile to the packages installed. Every subsequent package installed is then pinned to a specific Dockerfile.

  • Facebook releases its ‘Blender’ chatbot as an open-source project
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