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

TechCrunch

In its annual open source contributor survey from 2020 , the Linux Foundation and The Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard found that more than half of core and frequent contributors to open source projects were financed for their work, either by their current employer or by a third party.

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Links for 2010-01-03 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Three success predictions for 2010 | IT Project Failures | ZDNet.com. Five failure predictions for 2010 | IT Project Failures | ZDNet.com. ec2 | eu-west-1 | linux | m1.small Fascinating: The new Amazon EC2 spot price ticker [link] Pricing most active on large instances, both Linux and Windows. from [link].

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The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus

Erik Bernhardsson

As a final test I decided to run it over the Linux kernel which is HUGE – 635,229 commits as of today. Linux also clearly exhibits more of a linear growth pattern. Again, code is available here. The monster repo of them all. Note that most of these repos took at most a few minutes to analyze, using my script. half-life (years).

Linux 241
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From Bugs to Breaches: 25 Significant CVEs As MITRE CVE Turns 25

Tenable

CVE-2010-2568: Windows Shell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploited Zero-Day Local Stuxnet High 2010 Why it’s significant: Regarded as one of the most sophisticated cyberespionage tools ever created, Stuxnet was designed to target SCADA systems in industrial environments to reportedly sabotage Iran's nuclear program.

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History of MySQL Database

The Crazy Programmer

Later on Oracle, a US tech giant acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010, and MySQL is today owned by Oracle. After one month, source and Linux binary got released. They released their first MySQL server on the same date. Another US tech firm named Sun Microsystems took complete ownership once they purchased MySQL AB.

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The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus

Erik Bernhardsson

As a final test I decided to run it over the Linux kernel which is HUGE – 635,229 commits as of today. Linux also clearly exhibits more of a linear growth pattern. Again, code is available here. The monster repo of them all. Note that most of these repos took at most a few minutes to analyze, using my script. half-life (years).

Linux 100
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Why enterprise CIOs need to plan for Microsoft gen AI

CIO

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott compared the company’s Copilot stack to the LAMP stack of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, enabling organizations to build at scale on the internet, and there’s clear enterprise interest in building solutions with these services.