10 products that big tech companies have open-sourced recently | Linux Today

10 products that big tech companies have open-sourced recently

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Jon Gold
Nov 23, 2015

In a very general and somewhat nebulous way, open-source software is on the rise. Acknowledging the importance of its large and growing role in enterprise computing has become an increasingly common activity, thanks to the prominence of open-source technology in everything from containerization to the cloud. A possible consequence of this is that major tech companies have been making more frequent gifts of code to the open-source community of late.

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Jon Gold

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