OSS, Openwashing and FUD
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Report “State of the Open-Source DBMS Market, 2018” by Gartner Includes Pricing Comparison With MariaDB [Ed: Gartner attacked FOSS for many years because Microsoft paid it to. Now it pretends to be a FOSS authority!?]
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VMWare's Dirk Hohndel on Linux and Open Source Software
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Innovium Announces OCP SAI and Open-Source SONiC Solution to Accelerate TERALYNX™ Market Adoption
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Open source geospatial provides groundwork for emerging technologies – Brian L. Soliday, awhere
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Open Source Compliance [Ed: Obsessing over risks of FOSS compliance while ignoring vastly worse risks associated with proprietary software]
For some time, the open source community has discussed how to put a stop to the copyright troll game. Approaches such as the "Principles of Community Enforcement" and the Linux Kernel developers "Kernel Enforcement Statement" were created to regain lost trust. Large companies such as Facebook, Googleand IBM are already committed to these principles.
In view of the millions that can be generated by aggressively pursuing license violations, copyright trolls are likely to continue to their activities despite these measures.
In addition, many issues regarding open source law are still unclear. The wording of license terms is often so imprecise that even the scope of the rights being granted is not clear. This "construction error" can be exploited by anyone seeking to enforce claims for profit. Cases have become known in which even over-the-air distribution of open source software was criticised for license violations. The licenses do not contain a clear provision for this form of use, which can be exploited by a holder of rights seeking profits.
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