The European Commission has published the results of a study analyzing the economic impact of open source software and hardware on the European economy. It is estimated that companies located in the EU invested around € 1 billion in open source software in 2018, which had a positive impact on the European economy of between
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The The Transform Technology Summits begin October 13 with Low-Code / No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Leave him OSS Company Newsletter guide your open The source journey! Register here. Google is providing financial support to the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF), with the intention of sponsoring security reviews in a handful of
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A Sonatype survey also found a 650% year-over-year increase in supply chain attacks targeting upstream public repositories. Image: Shutterstock / LeoWolfert Sonatype’s seventh annual State of the Software Supply Chain Report revealed that developers believe software management practices are in much better shape than field conditions indicate. Must-read developer content The analysis found that the
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WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The autonomous research system, an open source software developed by Air Force Research Laboratory scientists, is now available in line as a free download, thanks to a new license agreement. ARES OS, a product of 10 years of manufacture, aims to transform the research process by harnessing artificial intelligence
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The Biden administration is pushing to boost the U.S. shift from fossil fuels to cleaner energy as part of its massive infrastructure upgrade and fight against climate change. Modernizing America’s aging electricity grid must be part of that push – and new ideas, investments and innovations must be part of the plan. To date, the
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Column Is Linus Torvalds important for open source software? Sure. Guido van Rossum, who created the popular programming language Python? Sure! Michael “Monty” Widenius of MySQL Fame? Certainly. OK, what about Robert Love? Eben Moglen? Or Jono Bacon? Who? Exactly. These last three are, in order: the author of Linux in a nutshell, arguably the
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Open source software increased the European Union’s GDP from 65 to 95 billion euros in 2018, a new report released by the European Commission showed on Monday September 6, but warned that the EU should do more to promote actively open technologies. The study assessed the impact of open source software and hardware on the
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The journey of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in India has been long and dynamic. What started with a few Linux user groups in the 1980s has grown into a movement through collaboration between a diverse community of innovators. FOSS is now presenting an alternative model for building digital technologies at the population level.
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Venky Adivi is director of strategic capture and proposal management at Canonical, publisher of Ubuntu. In recent years, the private sector has moved away from proprietary software in favor of open source software and development approaches. For good reason: the open source avenue saves money and development time by using freely available components instead of
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The use of free software is increasing. With the constant need to reduce software development costs and time, it’s no secret that a majority of companies are heavily using open source components. This is especially true for start-ups who find open source extremely attractive. This includes lower costs to deploy the software as there are
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