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There’s nothing Automattic about balancing commercial growth with an open source developer community

TechCrunch

The tech industry has made a full 180-degree turn with regard to open source in the 16 years since Matt Mullenweg founded Automattic , a major commercial backer of open source content management system WordPress. Even true believers can be shocked by the extent to which open source has succeeded. “To

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Ocean tech investor survey, AI and PR, L-1 visa options

TechCrunch

To learn more about the opportunities they’re chasing and discover how climate change is shaping their investment thesis, he surveyed: Daniela V. Apply now to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt in September TechCrunch+ roundup: Ocean tech investor survey, AI and PR, L-1 visa options by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch

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SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs and vulnerabilities

TechCrunch

Maintaining source code is one of the toughest challenges that software developers face. In a 2020 survey from Sourcegraph, 51% of developers said that they have more than 100 times the volume of code they had ten years ago while 92% say the pressure to release software faster has increased.

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How to Use Open Source Software: Features, Main Software Types, and Selection Advice

Altexsoft

February 1998 became one of the notable months in the software development community: The Open Source Initiative (OSI) corporation was founded and the open source label was introduced. The term represents a software development approach based on collaborative improvement and source code sharing. Well, it doesn’t.

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Securing voting machines means raising funds

The Parallax

Instead, 24 states since 2010 have focused their efforts not on improving EVM security, but rather—based on unsubstantiated fears of widespread voter fraud —on restricting voting rights. ”—Chris Jerdonek, chairman, San Francisco Elections Commission Open Source Voting System Technical Advisory Committee.

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Octoverse spotlight: An analysis of developer productivity, work cadence, and collaboration in the early days of COVID-19

Github

What we found: Contributors to open source. People are collaborating more, especially on open source projects. Several open source projects have seen a spike in activity, and the time to merge a pull request on open source projects has dropped compared to last year. What we found.

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Is Java Still Popular with Software Developers?

Datavail

Java became open source in 2006, and Oracle took over stewardship when it acquired Sun in 2010. The wide range of open-source frameworks makes Java a popular tool for developing games like Minecraft and Mission Impossible II among many others. In a rapidly evolving technology world, that’s quite an accomplishment.