Openwashing: Facebook, Microsoft/Adobe and More
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Facebook Open-Sources BOLT, Google Introduces VR180 Creator for Linux, 2018 Open Source Job Report Now Available and More
Facebook yesterday announced it is open-sourcing BOLT, its "binary optimization and layout tool that accelerates large-scale applications". According to the Facebook post, "BOLT optimizes placement of instructions in memory, thereby reducing CPU execution time by 2 percent to 15 percent. Unlike previous tools to address instruction starvation, BOLT works with applications built by any compiler, including GCC or Clang. Today, we are open-sourcing BOLT so that engineers everywhere can use it alongside complementary technologies like AutoFDO to achieve performance gains for their apps."
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How Magento changed its open source approach to get 50% community contributions [Ed: Asay neglects to say that Magento is part of Adobe, which is also paying his salary to write puff pieces like these and push agenda at IDG (Asay is not a developer). Adobe now works for Microsoft (partnership), which helps maybe explains his openwashing of these FOSS foes.]
The theory of open source is community-driven development. The reality, however, is usually different. Most open source projects actually attract very little community. As much as a project like Linux or Kubernetes attracts deep developer involvement, most open source projects toil away in obscurity, the labor of love of a single developer. For commercial open source projects that do see significant contributions, like MongoDB or Red Hat's JBoss, virtually all of those contributions come from developers on a single company's payroll.
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Adobe is integrating PDF services directly into Microsoft Office 365
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42Gears UEM can now Manage Linux-based IoT Gateways
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ThoughtWorks Launches Gauge - A Free and Open Source Test Automation Framework
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Dilution and Misuse of the "Linux" Brand
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