Open source software is used in the creation of every film, and every frame of film is stored digitally in open source software formats this software is critical infrastructure for both making and preserving movies, says Rob Bredow, Sr. Vice President, Executive Creative Director and Head of ILM, and Chair of the ASWF governing board.

The initial investigation included an industry-wide survey, a series of one-on-one interviews with key stakeholders, and three Academy Open Source Summits held at the Academy headquarters, according to Andy Maltz, Managing Director, Science and Technology Council, AMPAS, and ASWF Board Member.

Comments Bredow, They identified the key common challenges they were seeing with open source software. The first was making it easier for engineers to contribute to OSS with a modern software build environment hosted for free in the cloud. The second was supporting users of open source software by helping to reduce the existing version conflicts between various open source software packages. And the third was providing a common legal framework to support open source software.

The mission of the Academy Software Foundation, Bredow elaborates, is to increase the quality and quantity of contributions to the content creation industrys open source software base; to provide a neutral forum to coordinate cross-project efforts; to provide a common build and test infrastructure; and to provide individuals and organizations a clear path to participation in advancing our open source ecosystem.

The ASWF has achieved solid early acceptance, with AWS (Amazon Web Services), Animal Logic, Autodesk, Blue Sky Studios, Cisco, DNEG, DreamWorks, Unreal Engine, Google Cloud, Intel, Microsoft, Movie Labs, Netflix, NVIDIA, Sony Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Weta Digital, Foundry, Red Hat, Rodeo Visual Effects Company and Warner Bros. already on board.

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Will we see more and more open source software in the future, or is this a passing trend that will die off eventually?

According to survey data, open source is definitely here to stay. Right now, around 78% of companies actually run open source software, and that trend will likely continue to grow. Open source code benefits businesses a lot, after all, since they get to enjoy better security, scalability, and much easier deployment as ProPrivacy discusses in their guide: Why is open source important?

But what does that mean for you, the end user? Will you enjoy better privacy? Short answer yes. But if youre looking for more detail, keep reading.

Heres why open source code is the only way to enjoy true privacy, and why you should use an open source VPN client if you want to secure your online data.

Open source code is something thats open to the public. Basically, anyone can inspect, copy, learn from, and sometimes even edit it without fear of legal repercussions. To truly be open source, the software must also have an open source license that meets all the standards of the Open Source Definition.

Nowadays, most developers publish their open source code on GitHub.

Comparatively, closed source code only belongs to the company, team, or person who created it. Nobody else can use or inspect it, unless they want to meet the long arm of the law.

Yes. There are no ifs or buts here.

If you are extremely focused on privacy, open source is the only way to go especially when using a VPN.

Were not saying a closed source VPN client cant be trusted at all. But if youre the kind of person who needs to have full control over their Internet privacy, open source options are simply better for your sanity.

Well, OpenVPN, SoftEther, and WireGuard for starters. OpenVPN is the most popular, but SoftEther and WireGuard are much more lightweight (meaning you get good security and smooth speeds).

But using either of those options isnt as simple as just installing a client on your device. You need a bit of technical know-how to set everything up. Maybe WireGuard might go smoother since its more user-friendly. But youll still have to buy and set up your own server which can cost you anywhere between $15 and $100 per month.

Besides those options, you might see some articles recommending a few other open source solutions. But theyre not too popular or user-friendly, and most of them only run on Linux.

Luckily, at PIA we have also started embracing open source announcing a shift towards open source back in 2018, and recently offering our Android code open for inspection meaning all PIA VPN clients are now open source VPN clients.

Whats more, we have even started reaching out to external auditors. And, also recently launched a closed Beta for the WireGuard protocol.

So at PIA were definitely committed to full transparency and user privacy. If youd like to learn more about the pros of using PIA, check out this in-depth review (dont worry, you can easily scan through it).

The future is open source. The stats prove it, and its really the only way to go when it comes to guaranteeing user privacy and helping people trust brands (especially VPNs).

Why else do you think people should use an open source VPN client? Or do you believe closed source options are better for privacy? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.

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Modular, extensible, open source.

The Eclipse Foundation, one of the leading global voices advancing open source software, released Eclipse Theia version 1.0. Intended to be a completely open source alternative to Microsofts Visual Studio Code, Eclipse Theia supports multiple languages and combines some of the best features of IDEs into one extensible platform.

If the name rings any bells, the Theia project previously began elsewhere. It was initially created by Ericsson and TypeFox (founders of Gitpod and Xtext) in 2016 and moved to The Eclipse Foundation in May of 2018.

To celebrate this milestone, explore some of its stand-out features and see what sets it apart from VS Code.

SEE ALSO: Top 6 IDEs of March

Eclipse Theia screenshot. Source.

Theia is designed to run on both the cloud and on desktop, so if you are unsure which you will need, you can use it in both contexts. You can even develop one IDE and run it in browsers and/or desktop versions.

From The Eclipse Foundations press release:

To support both situations with a single source, Theia runs in two separate processes. Those processes are called frontend and backend respectively, and they communicate through JSON-RPC messages over WebSockets or REST APIs over HTTP. In the case of Electron, the backend, as well as the frontend, run locally, while in a remote context the backend would run on a remote host.

SEE ALSO: Get your children programming while playing with these resources on coding for kids

Will Theia eclipse (pardon the pun) VS Code? The fact that it is open source scores some big brownie points. Of course, if you want to contribute towards this project, you can help it improve by submitting bug reports, submitting pull requests, and solving issues.

Eclipse Theia takes many design principles from VS Code, but also stands out as its own project. From the Theia website, the main differences between it and VS Code are its modularity, its desktop and cloud capabilities, and its vendor-neutrality.

Early adopters and contributors of this project include Google Cloud, RedHat, IBM, arm, and Arduino.

Luca Cipriani, CTO of Arduino says:

As one of the worlds largest open source ecosystems for hardware and software, we fully support extending vendor-neutral governance to every aspect of software development. Eclipse Theia is another important step in that direction. Our community has been eagerly advocating for functionality for some time.

View the source code on GitHub. Or, give it a taste and try it out in Gitpod.

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What if the best tool to fight the coronavirus right now is not a vaccinelikely at least a year awaybut a mobile phone? Smart mobile phones, app developers, and governments around the world can help deliver timely and accurate public health information and aid rigorous contact tracing to limit the spread of coronavirus.

The government of India is clearly attuned to the public health implications of mobile access. The government recently launched MyGov Corona Helpdesk, a so-called chatbot" feature on WhatsApp, a messaging app used by over 400 million Indian mobile users. MyGov Corona Helpdesk gives the government a direct line to provide accurate information about coronavirus prevention, symptoms, and treatment.

Singapore is demonstrating that smartphones can aid with contact tracingdetermining where an infected person contracted the disease, and also others who might have contracted the disease from the infected person. On 20 March, the government there released an app called TraceTogether, which allows users who contract the disease to share information about other potentially infected individuals. Singapore will reportedly offer TraceTogether as a free, open-source app that developers in India or any other country could take and adapt to local conditions.

In Taiwan, a tech entrepreneur worked with the government on the Face Mask Map, which provided real-time, location-specific data to the public on mask availability to prevent the kind of panic buying that hindered the response to SARS in 2003.

Each of these examples (just a few of many) shows how digitally-empowered citizens can access accurate information and relieve pressure on the public health authorities in times of emergency. However, citizens without access to a mobile device will find it more difficult to access and share relevant health information. This dramatically underscores that increasing mobile phone access is important not only for economic development and education, but also for containing the spread of coronavirus and other similar threats to public health.

How do we get mobile phones into the hands of more Indian citizens so that they can access these potentially life-saving apps? Our recent study found that one way might be through increased adoption of so-called open source software (OSS) like Android or Linux. OSS is free or low-cost software that permits users to use, customize, and redistribute the code without permission from or payment to any company. In the mobile context, use of OSS spares mobile device manufacturers the cost of developing their own operating system, so they can focus on what they do best: designing and building innovative new mobile phones.

In the Indian context, adoption of OSS like Android has already driven down the cost of mobile phones: the average selling price declined by more than 34% to $159 from 2010 to 2019. Many devices sell for far less.

The success of OSS in India has given developers a way to quickly and cheaply reach hundreds of millions of consumers, which theyve already been leveraging to deliver health solutions to Indian mobile users. Take the Practo app, which helps patients find doctors, upload medical records, and order medicines to their home. Developers can create Android apps like Practo, confident of smooth performance over hundreds of millions of devices across the country. Compatibility, enabled by the agreement of mobile device makers to adhere to a common technical baseline for their devices, has been a lynchpin of the success of OSS in India, where there isnt a single company that controls the design of most devices.

Even with dropping prices, smart mobile phonesand thus, potentially life-saving public health toolsare still out of reach for hundreds of millions of Indians, especially as the entire country is under quarantine. More needs to be done, and soon. The government of India should continue and deepen its long-standing supportthe National Resource Centre for Free & Open Source Software was founded all the way back in 2004for OSS. In particular, the government should be mindful to avoid policies or market interventions that could prevent or decelerate the rapid dissemination of public health software solutions to mobile users or otherwise harm the positive effects that Android and other OSS are generating. If OSS is able to continue its path in India, it could be a critical part of the toolbox to fight the coronavirus and other emergent public health threats.

Anindya Ghose is the Heinz Riehl Chair Professor of Business at NYU Stern School, and D. Daniel Sokol is professor of law at University of Florida

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SAN FRANCISCO, March 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), a collaborative cross-industry effort developing an open source platform for connected car technologies, announces three new members: MERA, Mocana, and Osaka NDS.

"With the support of 11 major automakers, we are increasingly seeing more vehicles in production with AGL," said Dan Cauchy, Executive Director of Automotive Grade Linux at the Linux Foundation. "We look forward to working with all of our new members as we continue to expand the AGL platform and the global ecosystem of products and services that support it."

AGL is an open source project at the Linux Foundation that is bringing together automakers, suppliers and technology companies to accelerate the development and adoption of a fully open, shared software platform for all technology in the vehicle, from infotainment to autonomous driving. Sharing a single software platform across the industry reduces fragmentation and accelerates time-to-market by encouraging the growth of a global ecosystem of developers and application providers that can build a product once and have it work for multiple automakers.

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MERA"MERA, as a software development company, has been using open source software for many years, bringing best in class solutions to its customers in various industries like ICT, Industrial IoT, Automotive, FinTech and others," said Dmitry Oshmarin, CTO of MERA. "As experts in embedded software development, especially in the Linux environments, we plan to contribute to Automotive Grade Linux. At the same time, we will leverage this new experience to help our customers to benefit from using AGL in their products."

Mocana"Automotive manufacturers and suppliers are connecting a broadening range of systems and devices onboard vehicles to deliver mission-critical safety capabilities as well as significantly enhance the user experience. Many of these on-board systems also incorporate virtualized systems or containers to streamline and scale the delivery of key functionalities," said Dave Smith, President of Mocana. "This increase in connectivity provides additional insight into the performance and reliability of systems to improve system performance and safety, as well as minimize downtime and reduce maintenance costs. Unfortunately, it also introduces new cybersecurity risks and ways for hackers to attack these on-board systems to compromise their safety and uptime and generate inaccurate alerts, messaging and data. We plan to design plug-n-play solutions that integrate with the AGL platform to enable scalable, end-to-end security, to protect any AGL-based systems on-board connected or autonomous vehicles."

Osaka NDS"Osaka NDS CO.,Ltd is leader in developing, deploying and supporting commercial and industrial embedded Linux solutions and services, and we are excited about joining the AGL community," states Yutaka Toida, Osaka NDS's Director. "We look forward to working with other AGL members as we continue to expand the AGL platform to support new mobility solutions and connected car applications."

About Automotive Grade Linux (AGL)Automotive Grade Linux is a collaborative open source project that is bringing together automakers, suppliers and technology companies to accelerate the development and adoption of a fully open software stack for the connected car. With Linux at its core, AGL is developing an open platform from the ground up that can serve as the de facto industry standard to enable rapid development of new features and technologies. Although initially focused on In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI), AGL is the only organization planning to address all software in the vehicle, including instrument cluster, heads up display, telematics, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving. The AGL platform is available to all, and anyone can participate in its development. Automotive Grade Linux is hosted at the Linux Foundation. Learn more at automotivelinux.org.

https://www.automotivelinux.org/announcements/2020/03/27/new-members-march-2020

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Last year, Microsoft announced support for the inclusion of the exFAT technology into the Linux Kernel(1). This is an interesting example of a change to theexFATecosystem that hasbeen mostly proprietary for almost two decades. Whatever Microsofts reasons for doing so, the consequence of thisexFATchange is not at all evident at this stage.

Microsoft has generally done two things. Theyve made exFAT specs available to the general public (though still hiding transactional exFAT specs(2)away from public eyes) and theyve promised(1)an exFAT patent fee exemption for OIN members.

Lets first look into some cases where filesystems similar to exFAT were supported inUnix derivatives and how that worked from an open source perspective.

The most sound case is Android, which creates a native Linux ext4FS container to run apps from FAT formatted flash cards(3). This shows the inability (or unwillingness based on the realistic estimation of a needed effort) of software giant Google to make its own implementation of a much simpler FAT in the Android Kernel.

The other case is Mac OS, which is anotherUnix derivative that still does not have commercial support for NTFS-write mode...it only supports NTFS in a read-only mode. That appears strange given the existence of NTFS-3G for Linux. One can activate write support, but theres no guarantee that NTFS volumes wont be corrupted during write operations.

An additional example, away from filesystems, isan open source SMB protocol implementation. Mac OS,as well as the majority of printer manufacturers,do not rely on an open-source solution. There are several commercial implementations ofSMB as soon as a commercial level of support is required.

So, why didnt the open sourcemodelwork in these three cases?

The main reason is that in all of these cases, data structure specs and the description of algorithms are not the most important piece of the picture.

The root of the problem is in the variety of real-life situations where bugs and failures may occur and lead to a data-loss situations, which is a total no-go in the real world.

The open source community is successful, though it has been in create open source programs and platforms, is still no guarantee of industrial-grade software development(3). The core to success in developing a highly reliable solution is a carefully nurtured auto-test environment. This assures a careful track record and in-depth analysis for every failure, as well as effective work-flow, making sure any given bug or failure never repeats. Its obvious that building such an environment can take years, if not decades, and the main thing here is not to know how something should work according to specs, but to know how and where exactly it fails.In other words, the main problem is not the resources needed to develop the code, the main problem is time needed to build up a reliable test-coverage that will provide a sufficient barrier for data-loss bugs.

Another problem with open source is that it is usually accompanied by a GPL license. This limits the contribution to such projects almost solely to the open source community itself. One of the major requirements of the GPL license is to disclose changes to source code in case of further distribution, making it pointless for commercial players to participate.

Theyre limited to non-redistributable commits only, which is a pretty low priority case in the real world. If a commercial player commits anything to Linux publicly as an outcome of work for hire for a specific customer, there is no way to make money out of it in the future since it becomes available to anyoneon a royalty-free basis. This also raises the question to a commercial customer on why they would pay to help others, who may well be competitors.

This all makes the future of Microsofts exFAT initiative quite vague. Clearly, this will end up as delivering exFAT support in the Linux kernel.

Will it ever go beyond the read-only level? Will it ever be good enough for hardware manufacturers to rely on in commercial products?

Only time will tell.

There is the good news that Microsoft still maintains a pool of four partners(5)able to provide a commercial-grade exFAT implementation when a truly bulletproof solution is required for Linux or any other OS. Its also very interesting to note that Microsoft does not seem to be optimistic in providing its own commitof exFATto the Linux Kernel instead, it is leaving this effort to the open-source community.

Doing the job properly and in full would be the ultimate solution from the inventor of exFAT. We can only speculate as to why Microsoft is not doing this on its own, perhaps because of the complexity of this effort, or for other reasons.

Whatever the truth of the situation, serious players know that real solutions already exist for anyone unwilling to wait for a reliable open source exFAT implantation to arrive. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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3.https://www.xda-developers.com/diving-into-sdcardfs-how-googles-fuse-replacement-will-reduce-io-overhead/https://source.android.com/devices/storage/traditional

4.Dr. Till Jaeger, Prof. Dr. Axel Metzeger (2020) Open Source Software Rechtliche Rahmenbedinungen der Freien Software, page 13

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Katia Shabanovais director of public relations at Paragon Software Group. Ms. Shabanova studiedlinguistics atMoscowStateLinguisticUniversityandUniversityof Texas at Austin; English and German philology at Santa ClaraUniversity, California; and earned Master of Arts degrees in English and German Philology at Georg-AugustUniversityof Gttingen, Germany. Prior to joining Paragon Software Group in 2007, she worked for three high-tech public relations agencies in Silicon Valley, California. You may contact her atkshabanova@paragon-software.comor connect with her on LinkedInhttp://tinyurl.com/8nxzeou.

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Paragon Software is the industry leader for cross-platform drivers, and an authorized partner of Microsoft.The following Q&Aanswers many questions asked by Paragons customers on daily basis. This Q&A helps better understand what is GPL, OSS, patents, OIN ecosystem, definitions of Linux, OIN license agreement and many other things around free exFAT.

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Mar 26th 2020

BERKELEY AND SLACK

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WEIRDLY, THINGS havent changed much, says Kyle Mathews as he sprays disinfectant on his hands. At least at work. His startup, Gatsby, helps websites manage content in the cloud. It has no headquarters and its 50-odd employees straddle the world, from Mr Mathewss home in Berkeley, California, to Siberia.

Such fully distributed firms were on the rise before covid-19. As national lockdowns spread, conventional ones are forced into similar arrangements. Those that have grown up this way offer lessons.

Distributed organisations are as old as the internet. Its first users 50 years ago realised how much can be done by swapping emails and digital files. These exchanges led to the development of open source software, jointly written by groups of strangers often geographically distant.

Today most distributed startups have open-source roots. Gatsby is one. Nearly all 1,200 employees of another, Automattic, best known for WordPress, software to build websites, work from home. GitHub, which hosts millions of open-source projects (and was acquired by Microsoft in 2018), may be the worlds biggest distributed enterprise. Two-thirds of its 2,000 staff work remotely. Most firms that build blockchains, a type of distributed database, are by their nature dispersed.

Plenty of startups start out distributed to avoid high rentsand so high wagesin Silicon Valley and other tech centres. Many opt to stay that way. Joel Gascoigne, boss of Buffer, which helps customers manage social-media accounts, works remotely in Boulder, Colorado. Stripe, an online-payments firm, has a head office in San Francisco but its new engineering hub is a collection of remote workers.

Distributed startups exist thanks to a panoply of digital toolsmost obviously corporate-messaging services such as Slack (chat) and Zoom (videoconferencing), as well as lesser-known firms like Miro (virtual whiteboards for brainstorming) or Donut (which pairs employees to forge personal bonds). Others, like Process Street, Confluence or Trello, help manage work flow and keep track of what goes on in virtual corridorscrucial when people do not share the same physical space. Firms offering organisational scaffolding for distributed firms include Rippling, which manages payroll and employee benefits, grants workers access to corporate services and sets up their devices. Much that is now done in spreadsheets could be turned into a virtual service, predicts Rich Wong of Accel, a venture-capital (VC) firm (and early investor in Slack).

Besides new tools, distributed firms need novel management practices. One rule is not to mix physical and virtual teams. Online participants in mixed meetings often feel excluded. GitHubs boss, Nat Friedman, has all employeeshimself includedlog in to meetings virtually, even if they are in the office. Looking over someones shoulder to see if they are working (or worse, use software to do it) is another no-no. Remote workers do not slack off, as some managers fear. Trust your team, set clear and, where possible, measurable goals, and let people do their thing, counsels Mr Mathews. To foster camaraderie, Buffer organises an annual in-person retreat (covid-19 will push it online this year).

Trust also requires transparency and explicitnessanother reason documentation is key, says Michael Pryor, co-founder of Trello (whose workforce is 80% remote). Discussions that lead to a decision must be captured in writing, he explains, so everyone understands the trade-offs being considered. As a result, distributed firms favour wordsmiths, not good speakers as traditional firms do. Good writing demands clear thinking and discipline, says Mr Friedman, who has been managing distributed teams for 20 years. VCs duly report that distributed startups tend to be better at preparing board meetings.

The pandemic may lead some companies that have outsourced lots of operations to the cloud to go a step further and get rid of at least some offices. I just dont think we are going to go back [to business as usual], says Frank Slootman, boss of Snowflake, a database firm. Even digerati like Twitter plan to turn more virtual.

Still, some businesses suddenly forced into remote work will rue the experience, predicts Mr Gascoigne. Without a learning period they will get all the drawbacks and few of the benefits. Brainstorming and other creative activities are possible online but take practiceand even then feel like an imperfect ersatz of an actual room. Recruiting and breaking in new employees is hard virtually. According to one recent survey of 3,500 remote workers, one in five struggles with loneliness. That is partly why GitHub and Trello operate optional offices.

Most businesses will always have to be located somewhere and need people to work side by side. But as technology improves, swathes of the knowledge economy will gradually move more functions online, thinks Venkatesh Rao of Ribbonfarm, a consultancy. New firms will erect a new virtual floor, which others then inhabit. The coronavirus-fuelled exodus to cyberspace is unlikely to be the last.

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There are a lot of tire models available in the world. Most are closed source (or black box), meaning the program code behind them is not available to end users. This is understandable as the code can easily be licensed and its development paid for. Everyones got to make a living! This approach, however, makes it much harder to get the best out of the models if you cant see their internal workings, its harder to maximize their usefulness.

Other models, such as Magic Formula, are effectively open source, with the equations published in books and journal papers. This means that anyone (if they invest the time) can build and use their own Magic Formula solvers and, in the process, learn the details of how the model works.

In April 2015, during a session at the 4th International Tire Colloquium at Surrey University, UK, the general idea of open sourcing was discussed. In attendance were various figures from the commercial tire model development community, representatives from car and tire companies who use the models, and a large group of academics involved in more fundamental research. Issues were raised regarding everything from intellectual property concerns and licensing through to technical advances, development strategies and training. Boiling all this down, most discussions centered on one of two approaches.

The first is the traditional licensing model. A company or organization develops a tire model, tests it, evaluates it and, when it works, compiles the model into a black box and sells licensing to use it. These licenses typically come with some training and documentation and an ongoing maintenance fee. The advantage here is the more realizable income generated by the license fee. The disadvantage is mainly on the customer side not being able to see into the black box means the only way to understand the model is via the documentation and continued evaluation. Furthermore, if the customer wants to add features or modifications, they are usually unable to do so themselves and must rely on the vendor.

The second approach supports an open-source mentality. This is where an organization, usually (but not always) academics at a university, develops a reasonably mature piece of software and then publishes the source code online. Doing so means that anyone can dig through the code and fully understand what the tire model does. Other stakeholders can also develop the code themselves and are encouraged to share any updates they make. If there are enough users invested in the project, the development work is completed across the community, reducing the overall development costs. Furthermore, if a particular user needs specific enhancements or additional features, they are able to develop these themselves and share the enhancements with the community customers get what they need, and the tire model is continually further developed.

The issue with the open-source approach is that once the code is published, it cant usually be licensed in the conventional way. After all, why would anyone pay a license for software thats available for free? One solution here is not to charge for the code, but for technical support, as the code is often complex and requires a significant time investment to get it up and running so that it can be used effectively. Therefore, offering a support license can be a commercially viable option.

Another option is for commercial companies to develop and license a user-friendly interface for the complex open-source tire model. For example, while a customer may be able to code its own Magic Formula plotter and toolset, for many it makes sense to buy some already coded software to save time. This can offer the best of both worlds, as in some cases the licensed software can be used even while the underlying open-source tire model is modified and updated. With the advantages that come with open-source code, I personally am very much in favor of this approach.

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With the coronavirus COVID-19 taking the world by storm, and everyone tightening down in their bunkers, it seems like a good time to think about how we work together. Because of the virus, technology conferences have shuttered and even frequent office dwellers and meeting makers are learning how to work remotely. Open source software development is usually done remotely, so maybe by borrowing some of the methods of open source development, we can all find better ways to work together and stay connected?

I spoke with Danese Cooper about InnerSource or using open source methods to develop internal or proprietary software. Cooper is a technology executive, long time open source advocate and now president of the InnerSource Commons Foundation.

(Disclosure: I served with Danese Cooper on the board of the Open Source Initiative and I have worked with her in other capacities. She describes us as frenemies.)

InnerSource is so named to distinguish itself from open source. Unlike open source, InnerSource is developed inside your company. According to Cooper, InnerSource is the use of open source methods inside the firewall in a proprietary company because its a better way to write software. Some companies who learned how to collaborate using InnerSource also find that they can collaborate more publicly in open source.

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To identify the market needs across the global regions, it offers an analytical survey into North America, Latin America, Africa, Europe and Asia-Pacific have been examined to get a clear idea. The global Open Source Software market registers the highest market share in the region. Asia Pacific has a large population, which makes its market potential a significant one. It is the fastest-growing and most lucrative region in the global economy. This chapter specifically explains the impact of population on the global Open Source Software market. Research views it through a regional lens, giving the readers a microscopic understanding of the changes to prepare for.

Table of Contents (TOC):

Part 1 Market Overview

1.1 Market Definition

1.2 Market Development

1.3 By Type

1.4 By Application

1.5 By Region

Part 2 Key Companies

Part 3 Global Market Status and Future Forecast

3.1 Global Market by Region

3.2 Global Market by Company

3.3 Global Market by Type

3.4 Global Market by Application

3.5 Global Market by Forecast

Part 4 Asia-Pacific Market Status and Future Forecast

4.1 Asia-Pacific Market by Type

4.2 Asia-Pacific Market by Application

4.3 Asia-Pacific Market by Geography

4.3.1 China Market Status and Future Forecast

4.3.2 Southeast Asia Market Status and Future Forecast

4.3.3 India Market Status and Future Forecast

4.3.4 Japan Market Status and Future Forecast

4.3.5 Korea Market Status and Future Forecast

4.3.6 Oceania Market Status and Future Forecast

4.4 Asia-Pacific Market by Forecast

Part 5 Europe Market Status and Future Forecast

5.1 Europe Market by Type

5.2 Europe Market by Application

5.3 Europe Market by Geography

5.3.1 Germany Market Status and Future Forecast

5.3.2 UK Market Status and Future Forecast

5.3.3 France Market Status and Future Forecast

5.3.4 Italy Market Status and Future Forecast

5.3.5 Russia Market Status and Future Forecast

5.3.6 Spain Market Status and Future Forecast

5.3.6 Netherlands Market Status and Future Forecast

5.3.7 Turkey Market Status and Future Forecast

5.3.6 Switzerland Market Status and Future Forecast

5.4 Europe Market by Forecast

Part 6 North America Market Status and Future Prospects

6.1 North America Market by Type

6.2 North American Market by Application

6.3 North American Market by Region

6.3.1 US Market Status and Future Prospects

6.3.2 Canadian Market Status and Future Prospects

6.3.3 Mexico Market Status and Future Prospects

6.4 North American Market by Forecast

Part 7. South America Market Status and Future Prospects

7.1 South America Market by Type

7.2 South American Market by Application

7.3 South America Market

7.3.1 Brazil Market Status and Future Prospects

7.3.2 Argentina Market Status and Future Prospects

7.3.3 Columbia Market Status and Future Forecast

7.3.4 Chile Market Status and Future Prospects

7.3.5 Peru Market Status and Future Prospects

7.4 South American Market Forecast

Part 8 Middle East and Africa Market Status and Future Prospects

8.1 Middle East and Africa Market by Type

8.2 Middle East and Africa Market by Application

8.3 Middle East and Africa Markets by Region

8.3.1 GCC Market Status and Future Prospect

8.3.2 North Africa Market Status and Future Prospects

8.3.3 South Africa Market Status and Future Forecast

8.4 Middle East and Africa Market Forecasts

Part 9 Market Features

9.1 Product Features

9.2 Price Features

9.3 Channel Features

9.4 Purchasing Features

Part 10 Investment Opportunity

10.1 Regional Investment Opportunity

10.2 Industry Investment Opportunity

Part 11 Conclusion

2019 by Product Segment, Technology, Application, End User, Future Opportunities and Region till 2026

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