March 13, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Shuah Khan becomes the third Linux Foundation Fellow
Programmers love to write code. But what about debugging it, writing test suites, and tracking down security bugs? Not so much. To help address these problems in Linux, Shuah Khan, a noted Linux kernel developer, is becoming — after Linus … Continue reading
March 12, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Open Distro for Elasticsearch is Amazon’s move to show it’s pro-open source
Amazon Web Services (AWS) just launched Open Distro for Elasticsearch. This program takes AWS’s recent proprietary additions to Elasticsearch and open sources them under the Apache 2.0 license. That sounds good. Shay Banon, co-founder of Elasticsearchand CEO of Elastic, its parent company, sees … Continue reading
March 11, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Open source advances deeper into hardware: The CHIPS Alliance project
Open-source hardware is older than you might think. Sun released OpenSPARC in 2007, and IBM started OpenPOWER in 2013. OpenSPARC would die after Oracle bought Sun, and OpenPOWER remains largely IBM-driven. With the recent arrival of the RISC-V (pronounced Risk-Five), though, open-source CPU designs have finally … Continue reading
February 20, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on The battle between real open source vs. faux open source heats up
On February 19, Redis Labs, the home of Redis, the popular open-source in-memory data structure store, announced it has raised $60 million in new financing. Redis Labs CEO Ofer Bengal told Ars Technica that one reason for this was its new “open-source” Common Clauselicense. “The … Continue reading
February 14, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on The top five upcoming cloud developments
Strap yourself in. We’ll be going to some interesting places with the cloud in the near future. 1. Hybrid Cloud Takes Off For the longest time, the hybrid cloud didn’t really go much of anywhere. That’s because it wasn’t easy … Continue reading
February 12, 2019
by sjvn01
Comments Off on No, you can’t take open-source code back
Some people are still unclear about what it means or what happens once they’ve published their program under an open-source license. In the most recent example, mikeeusa, the author of an obscure game called GPC-Slots 2, claimed he was rescinding the program’s … Continue reading