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Open Source Means Strong Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

“Your secure software is open source: doesn’t that make it less secure?” We strongly believe not only that open source is compatible with digital security, but that it’s also essential for it. Bear in mind that a good safe design allows the user to choose their own combination at random.

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How to turn an open source project into a profitable business

TechCrunch

Victoria Melnikova Contributor Share on Twitter Alongside fellow Evil Martians , Victoria Melnikova builds devtools and commercial open source products and writes about her journey in tech. But is it possible for a smaller open source project to find its way into this land of commercial opportunity?

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So where is open source in the nptech ecosystem?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology So where is open source in the nptech ecosystem? at 9:57 pm Hey Michelle- I think that the conversations about open source technology in the nonprofit sector is really still beginning.

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Meet Budibase, a low-code open-source web app builder with automations

TechCrunch

So despite the broader downturn , it seems that 2022 may have been relatively kind to startups operating in the no- and low-code sphere, something that fledgling Northern Irish startup Budibase is capitalizing on with the announcement of a fresh $7 million tranche of funding to further develop an open source web app builder.

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With $8M seed, Onehouse builds open source data lakehouse, eyes managed service

TechCrunch

What open source-based startups can learn from Confluent’s success story. He created a tool to do this called Hudi , which Uber donated to the Apache Software Foundation as an open source project the following year. And data lakes let you scale to huge amounts of data,” he said.

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Free and open source tool #6: Joomla!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start.

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Ensuring the open source moment continues

InfoWorld

Back in the 2000s, we talked about open source a lot—perhaps too much. We chastised companies for “open washing” (anticipating the years of cloud- and AI-washing to come). We debated “ open core ” business models. We fought about whether code freedom (GPL) or developer freedom (Apache/BSD) mattered more. TL;DR never.