Just when Microsoft ended the support for Windows 7, Free Software Foundation filed a petition demanding Windows 7 to be open source. Now, the open-source community went a little further by making another bold move.

Reportedly, the FSF mailed a blank upcycled hard drive to Microsoft. The foundation wants Microsoft to send back the hard drive, but after copying Windows 7 source code in it, along with license notice.

Whats even more interesting is that the foundation offers its help to Microsoft for the process to go smoother.

Its as easy as copying the source code, giving it a license notice, and mailing it back to us. As the author of the most popular free software license in the world, were ready to give them all of the help we can. All they have to do is ask,said the Free Software Organization.

The Free Software Foundation was aiming for at least 7,777 signatures in their petition to open-source Windows 7. However, they received overwhelming support from people with more than 13,000 signatures.

The open-source foundation also pointed out that its a perfect opportunity for Microsoft to show how much love they have for open-source.

We want them to show exactly how much love they have for the open source software they mention in their advertising. If they really do love free software and were willing to give them the benefit of the doubt they have the opportunity to show it to the world.

So, its pretty clear that the foundation is going head on to challenge Microsoft. But obviously, Microsoft still hasnt responded to their request to open-source Windows 7.

Its highly unlikely that the tech giant is even taking this petition seriously. Thats because Microsoft will earn big bucks by providing Windows 7 ESU to anyone who pays for it.

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6 Europe Open Source Software by Countries

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Many companies have a preference towards open source technology, so what should be kept in mind in regards to ensuring its security?

What do companies need to know about securing open source tech?

Like any area of tech, open source needs its own security measures to thrive without a hitch.

A major benefit that organisations gain from using open source tech is that its freely available and not distributed from a particular proprietor.

The open source aspect refers to the code, and can be found within databases, applications and operating systems, among other software. This code can be changed to suit the needs of the business.

However, being available from the public domain, this realm will have its own potential vulnerabilities that hackers could exploit.

The creator of Jenkins X and the Apache Groovy language, James Strachandistinguished engineer at CloudBeesdiscusses the importance of open source providers in keeping open source, open. Read here

Open source applications, for all their arrays of use cases, can be compromised if those responsible for their security arent on top of any possible vulnerabilities.

Ben Griffin, director at Computer Disposals Ltd, explained: Because the code used by open source projects is freely viewable, hackers can take advantage of organisations that are slow to patch their applications.

Updating applications as soon as possible is imperative. Additionally, an inventory that tracks open source usage across teams helps with regards to visibility and transparency, as well as ensuring that different teams dont use different versions of the same component.

Similarly, technical employees should be careful not to copy and paste code from open source libraries, as this leaves the software susceptible to later vulnerabilities. Its a good idea to create an open source policy that specifically forbids copying and pasting such code from other projects.

Companies should also be sure to keep the security of their supply chain in mind when dealing with open source tech, and not agree to use any software without carefully examining what it entails.

The best thing to do when it comes to sharing open source code is to control your open source supply chain, said Stefano Maffulli, senior director of digital marketing and community at Scality. Do the due diligence on the packages shipped, reduce dependencies as much as possible and automatically keep track of them in your CI toolchain.

You want to avoid getting into situations like those weve seen recently where popular libraries were hijacked by criminals and modified to ship malware, like the right9ctrl fiasco in the fall of 2018, or completely removed from distribution as a political act of protest, such as the Chef scandal in the fall of 2019.

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In some ways, observing the security of open source tech is similar to securing software distributed by a proprietor.

One of these ways is that a plan is needed for when the software is under threat.

Alongside fixing and upgrading the code for open source software users, and encouraging developers to regularly monitor for patch updates, a solid business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategy is an effective solution for resolving any risks tied to open source software that threaten the availability of systems and data, said Ryan Weeks, chief information security office at Datto.

Being able to keep systems running and to quickly recover from an attack helps businesses avoid costly downtime caused by those security risks, including everything from ransomware, crypto jacking, and spyware to trojan horses, worms, and rootkits.

A good indicator of what open source tech is worth using within the company is which other firms are using it.

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Organisations should use open source software that has been adopted/embraced by large vendors, said Lior Ben Naon, chief solution architect at Skybox Security. For example, at organisational networks, we see Red Hat Linux servers significantly more than we see Ubuntu or CentOS distributions.

It is due to extended support mechanism of Red Hat, and the ownership they are taking upon their Linux code base. So in this example, it starts with open source code, but being adopted by a major vendor helps improve the security level, and allow better patching process, among others.

Companies should be wary of any personal information that may be present within application programming interfaces (APIs).

Vice president, global marketing at SIOS Technology, Frank Jablonski, said: The security risks of open APIs are not limited to hackers and malware. Open data and codes can lead to data sharing among applications.

The amount of personal information attained by open APIs can undoubtedly be shared with third-parties. This is evident in Facebooks vow to better secure personal information.

APIs can read all your data or they read the data from another application that you have. Security features for open APIs, such as API gateways, should provide users with the utmost protection.

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Private Internet Access (PIA) is open sourcing its Android VPN app and dependencies code to the public as part of its commitment to open sourcing all clients in the name of transparency and privacy. The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community is a cornerstone of everything we enjoy on the internet.

Private Internet Access is proud to be able to give back to the FOSS community by open sourcing the hard work of our developers, for the benefit of all. The roll out of all the Android-related PIA repositories will take place over the next couple of weeks and is starting today with PIAs slightly altered Android OpenVPN repo. The next repo will be PIAs Android VPN tunnel libraries and the final repo will be the PIA Android app itself.

Private Internet Access first announced their plans to open source their VPN client software on all platforms in 2018. Over the last few years, PIA has open sourced its Chrome Extension, Firefox Add-On, Private Internet Access tunnel for Apple Platforms, and Desktop client. The open source PIA desktop client even includes the code for how to allow users to resolve Handshake names. It is with great pleasure that the PIA team releases the code for the PIA VPN Android App to the public for anyone to review.

Links to all of the repositories can be found at pia-foss on Github. More information on PIAs FOSS codebases can also be found here. Any questions regarding Private Internet Accesss open source codebases can be directed to opensource@privateinternetaccess.com.

Private Internet Access has been the premier no-log VPN service in the industry for a decade. To maintain trust in our service, Private Internet Access is committed to leading the industry in new features and especially in transparency. Open sourcing our clients is just the tip of the iceberg. We believe that what privacy seeking users have been yearning for is the ability to not just blindly trust the companies they rely on to protect their privacy. To accomodate this righteous desire, Private Internet Access has adopted a new mentality: Dont Trust, Verify.

Allowing our users to verify that there is no malicious code running on their computers and Android and iOS smartphones is just the beginning. Private Internet Access is also developing a Verifiable zero access infrastructure as well as allowing random audits so there is additional verification that no logging is happening on our VPN servers. Join us as we lead the charge for a more private, transparent future where users dont need to blindly trust, but can verify instead.

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RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Red Hats open hybrid cloud technologies are providing a horizontal cloud platform for Orange Egypts virtual network functions (VNFs), helping the service provider to more quickly deliver new services to customers, optimize its network investments and reduce operational expenditure. Building on the foundation of Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage, Orange Egypt is the first Orange affiliate to manage 100% of its live customer traffic over a fully software-based platform spanning several sites across its region.

To maintain its position as Egypt's leading mobile operator, Orange Egypt wanted to use the latest in hybrid cloud and network functions virtualization (NFV) innovation to be able to respond in real-time to market dynamics and network conditions to best serve its more than 30 million customers. As part of this initiative, Orange Egypt looked to virtualize its mobile packet core, which had been running standalone functions on dedicated appliances.

Accordingly, Orange Egypt set out to move strategically from a centralized evolved packet core (EPC) supplier to a software-defined, distributed architecture on standard hardware, using Red Hat OpenStack Platform supported by Red Hat Ceph Storage. Red Hat Consulting provided certified training courses and professional services to support Orange Egypts teams derive greater value from open technologies, tools and methodologies.

In less than a year, Orange Egypt launched vEPC in 12 datacenters across six sites in Cairo and Alexandria. Today, 100% of Orange Egypts mobile broadband traffic is served by its virtualized packet core platform.

With its Red Hat-based open cloud, Orange Egypt gains access to an ecosystem of thousands of certified providers. The freedom to choose diverse suppliers as well as a reduced reliance on specialized hardware has helped Orange Egypt to lower its capital expenditure and operational expenses.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform is massively-scalable infrastructure with unified automated management, enabling Orange Egypt to launch and adapt services to better fulfill customer demand. With Red Hat Ceph Storage, Orange Egypt has a massively scalable storage solution for its workloads. It has been able to roll out software-defined capacity expansions for its telecom packet core to serve summer hotspots in Alexandria and Northern coastal areas. Orange Egypt was able to make 50% capacity upgrades in only two working days per site, which is nearly 10 times quicker than its traditional process.

With this new deployment, Orange Egypt was also able to deliver new cybersecurity services such as parental controls and malware protection to its consumer and business customers faster than previously possible with its traditional system. The third VNF that Orange Egypt has launched on its platform is mobile data optimization (MDO), enabling transmission control protocol (TCP) acceleration aimed at reducing network latency and improving the user experience.

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Darrell Jordan-Smith, global vice president, vertical industries & accounts, Red HatOrange Egypt is on a drive towards network transformation, and Red Hat is helping it meet this goal through a multi-vendor, multi-application network that can make full use of the scale and agility offered by cloud computing. Trusting in Red Hats open hybrid cloud technologies as the backbone for its horizontal platform approach, Orange Egypt has gained greater flexibility and freedom to optimize its network performance, expenditure and service delivery for the benefit of its customers.

Ayman Amiri, chief technology officer, Orange EgyptWe decided to lead the way in digital services innovation and provide outstanding customer experience. Open source is powering the development of next-generation cloud-native platforms and Red Hat augments this with enhanced security, stability and support, enabling us to create solutions that best fit our customers unique needs. With our horizontal telco cloud based on Red Hat technologies, we can act more dynamically to address business challenges and opportunities, and make a greater contribution to the digital development of Egyptian society.

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IBM has announced that the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is generally available forIBM ZandIBM LinuxONE. According to IBM, the availability of OpenShift for Z and LinuxONE is a major milestone for both hybrid multi-cloud and for enterprise computing. OpenShift supports cloud-native applications being built once and deployed anywhereand now extends this to on-premise enterprise servers such as IBM Z and LinuxONE. The offering is the result of the collaboration between the IBM and Red Hat development teams and discussions with early adopter clients.

The IBM announcement was made in an IBM IT Infrastructure blog post by Ross A. Mauri, general manager for IBM Z, and Joe Fernandes, vice president of products, Cloud Platforms Business Unit at Red Hat, which was acquired last year by IBM.

"Organizations today are looking to bring business innovation to market faster and more efficiently. Containers enable applications to be packaged together with their software dependencies, and Kubernetes adds powerful tools to manage large numbers of containers and orchestrate the full application lifecycle," the blog post said. "OpenShift then brings together the core open source technologies ofLinux, containers and Kubernetes, adds additional open source capabilities such developer tools and a registry, and hardens, tests and optimizes the software for enterprise production use."

Working with IBM Hybrid Cloud, Red Hat has also developed a roadmap for bringing the ecosystem of enterprise software to the OpenShift platform. IBM Cloud Paks containerize key IBM and open source software components to help enable faster enterprise application development and delivery.

IBM also announced thatIBM Cloud Pak for Applicationsis available for IBM Z and LinuxONEsupporting modernization of existing apps and building new cloud-native apps. In addition,as announced last August, IBM plans to deliver additional Cloud Paks for IBM Z and LinuxONE.

More information is available about IBM Z,LinuxONE, and Red Hat OpenShift

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