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• What to expect from SUSECON 2020

  Adrian Bridgwater 28 Feb 2020

UPDATE: Since this post was first written, SUSE has canceled the SUSECON 2020 due to the Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak -- we will aim to report on whatever virtual resrouces are made available in ...

• Couchbase chief evangelist: Unraveling the open source delusion

  Adrian Bridgwater 25 Feb 2020

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Andrew C. Oliver. Oliver is a former OSI board member, co-founder of Apache POI and present director of product marketing and ...

• Databricks CEO: Managing open source in the cloud is hard

  Adrian Bridgwater 21 Feb 2020

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Ali Ghodsi in his capacity as co-founder and CEO at data science, big data processing and machine learning company ...

• Linux Foundation & Harvard carry out open source ‘security census’

  Adrian Bridgwater 19 Feb 2020

The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) is a project designed to support best practices with a key eye on the security of critical open source software projects. The CII team ...

• MongoDB: developer distraction dents DevSecOps dreams

  Adrian Bridgwater 18 Feb 2020

Joe Drumgoole is deep in thought.  MongoDB’s director of developer relations has just opened a piece of internal research that suggests as few as 29% of Europe’s developers take full responsibility ...

• Open source licence series - Cockroach Labs: Scaling a sustainable open source business model

  Adrian Bridgwater 06 Feb 2020

Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...

• Open source licence series - OpenStack Foundation: Protecting open source freedoms

  Adrian Bridgwater 05 Feb 2020

Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...

• Open source licence series – Delphix: Rent vs buy, which fits your licencing cost model?

  Adrian Bridgwater 01 Feb 2020

Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...

• Open source licence series – Tidelift: Ethical source-available licenses challenge open source

  Adrian Bridgwater 31 Jan 2020

Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...

• Open source licence series – Puppet: consumption without collaboration equals consternation

  Adrian Bridgwater 31 Jan 2020

Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...

• Open source licence series - Rancher Labs: Why vendor ‘strip-mining’ is an opportunity, not a threat

  Adrian Bridgwater 27 Jan 2020

Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...

• Open source licence series - Altus: open source is big business, get used to it

  Adrian Bridgwater 27 Jan 2020

Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...

• Open source licence series - Instaclustr: Is open core a rotten deal?

  Adrian Bridgwater 24 Jan 2020

Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...

• Open source licence series - WhiteSource: permissive is winning, but is there a hurt factor?

  Adrian Bridgwater 23 Jan 2020

Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...

• Open source licence series - Percona: is the battle won, or is this a different war?

  Adrian Bridgwater 22 Jan 2020

Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...