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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

TechCrunch

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. “The result is reduced development costs and more freedom to innovate,” Linietsky said.

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Fleet nabs $20M to enable enterprises to manage their devices

TechCrunch

Open source origins. Fleet arose from an open source project called Osquery that was created by CTO Zach Wasserman together with Moonfire Ventures partner Mike Arpaia. Arpaia previously led software development teams at Etsy prior to joining Meta and helping Wasserman cofound Kolide.

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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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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

You create something that has value and gets traction and yet youve created it in a way that the software is considered "free." However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. Luckily Harold Jarche pointed us to other discussion on open source models.

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Make Something Great: Become an Open Source Contributor

A List Apart

You may think that open source is not for you. After all, it has always been a developer-dominant ecosystem. But code is by no means the only thing a piece of software is made of. Open source is first and foremost about community. Diversity is what can take open source from where it is to where it could be.

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How Blockchain May Help Future-Proof Your Software Development Career

Gorilla Logic

In this blog, we’ll try to answer these questions and give you insights into how you might consider blockchain as a way to future-proof your software development career. are open-source JavaScript libraries used to connect a web application to the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem. Which skills will be most useful?

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Map of VC Investments

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?