Matt Asay

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Webinos Whitepaper On Open Governance

George Voulgaris | Webinos | October 24, 2012

In March 2011 the webinos consortium published a deliverable titled “Industry landscape, governance, licensing and IPR frameworks”.  The purpose of this report was to assess the state of the art of technologies that will be used to realize the webinos platform, to understand related industry activities and to identify appropriate governance, licensing and IPR frameworks for webinos... Read More »

Don't Believe the Hype, AGPL Open Source Licensing Is Toxic and Unpopular

Matt Asay | Tech Republic | September 5, 2017

Reading Black Duck Software's newest paean to the Affero General Public License (AGPL) ("The Quietly Accelerating Adoption of the AGPL"), one could be forgiven for thinking AGPL is rocking the open source licensing planet. After all, Black Duck executive Phil Odence laced his post with fancy charts showing explosive growth of the license, ultimately declaring the AGPL "very popular," and a license his firm sees frequently in audits. Maybe, maybe not...

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News Flash: Oracle Still Hates Open Source Software

Matt Asay | ReadWrite | October 15, 2013

It's no wonder that Google, Red Hat and others have been abandoning Oracle's most visible open-source project, MySQL. Read More »

Why CoreOS Is A Game-Changer In The Data Center And Cloud

Eric Knorr | InfoWorld | November 10, 2014

Offering Linux as a service, CoreOS has become the preferred distro for Docker -- and may go a long way toward making data centers more cloudlike...

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