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The Open-Source Philosophy

Perficient

Open-Source vs. Proprietary Software – What’s the Difference? To thoroughly grasp what open source is, one should understand what it is not. Open-source software grants its users a degree of accessibility that is not possible through its proprietary counterpart.

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The importance of Code Reviews

Apiumhub

Code reviews were introduced with the intention of improving code quality, developers review each other’s code during a code review to ensure software quality, usually prior to merging the code. The code review process should not be limited to receiving only one-sided feedback.

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Five big open source gifts from us

David Heinemeier Hansson

Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. To appreciate the banner year of programming productivity that was 2023 at our company. In the sense that we don’t make money from open source. We sell business software.

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Daily Crunch: PSG, Battery Ventures invest $100M in open source password manager Bitwarden 

TechCrunch

The EU — those guys who ensured we ended up with cookie banners on every damn website you’ve ever visited — are back at it with a new initiative that could have some major-league unintended consequences on open source software, Kyle reports. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead.

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Daily Crunch: After developers complain, Microsoft clarifies new policy on open source monetization

TechCrunch

Words mean everything : Microsoft came under fire recently by developers due to the way it worded a new policy banning profiting off of open source software, and while the company clawed back that policy, Paul provides a look at what all this will mean. Pivoting your startup in a bear market: Become undeniably fundable.

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Code analysis tool AppMap wants to become Google Maps for developers

TechCrunch

The 10/10-rated Log4Shell flaw in Log4j, an open source logging software that’s found practically everywhere, from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centers, claimed numerous victims from Adobe and Cloudflare to Twitter and Minecraft due to its ubiquitous presence. Image Credits: AppMap.

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How to incubate a winning innovation program

CIO

They’re in the software business, and they compete on user experience. This is why innovation programs have become so critical to sustaining the success of enterprises. Whether they use custom-built software or software as a service, organizations’ processes are orchestrated and supported by the software they deploy.