January 20, 2021
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Comments Off on Elastic changes open-source license to monetize cloud-service use
Elastic is tackling Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) with its new license change. When Elastic, makers of the open-source search and analytic engine Elasticsearch and its companion data visualization dashboard Kibana, announced it was moving both programs’ source code from the Apache 2.0-license to the Server Side Public License (SSPL) and … Continue reading
January 19, 2021
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Comments Off on Ethical-source movement opens new open-source organization
Ethical-source licenses, such as the Hippocratic License, have not been widely adopted. True, the Contributor Covenant, the first and most popular open-source project code of conduct has had success — it was adopted by the Linux kernel developers, but actual code ethical-source licenses … Continue reading
September 11, 2020
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Comments Off on Where’s the Yelp for open-source tools?
We’d like an easy way to judge open-source programs. It can be done. But easily? That’s another matter. When it comes to open source, you can’t rely on star power. The “wisdom of the crowd” has inspired all sorts of … Continue reading
July 9, 2020
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Comments Off on Docker partners with AWS to smooth container deployments
On July 9, 2020, Docker and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced they would make Docker application developers’ lives easier by streamlining the process of deploying and managing containers from Docker Compose, Docker Desktop, and Docker Hub to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate. Docker partners … Continue reading
July 8, 2020
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Comments Off on Google open sources trademarks with the Open Usage Commons
Google has announced it is launching a new organization, Open Usage Commons (OUC), to host the trademarks for three of its most important new open-source projects. These are Angular, a web application framework for mobile and desktop; Gerrit, a web-based team code-collaboration tool; … Continue reading
June 30, 2020
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Comments Off on SODA Foundation expands cloud data autonomy plans
At the virtual Open Source Summit, The Linux Foundation announced the SODA Foundation, formerly OpenSDS, is adding open-source software and standards to its efforts to support data autonomy. It will do this by hosting an open-source, unified, and autonomous data management framework for data mobility … Continue reading