Google is often the target of conspiracy theories, but it is the only possible reaction to Fuchsia as there is no explanation as to what it is for, or more precisely what…
Tag: Open Source
Open source products grant permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. It most commonly refers to the open-source model, in which open-source software or other products are released under an open-source license as part of the open-source-software movement. Use of the term originated with software, but has expanded beyond the software sector to cover other open content and forms of open collaboration.
Open Usage Commons opposed
Google has announced Open Usage Commons as an organization to manage trademarks of its open source projects, inviting other open source projects to join. However, the inclusion of Istio as one of…
Purism and a Librem life
Purism is the outcome of an increasing concern about the exploitative direction of the tech industry; rising out of this concern through crowdfunding, Purism was launched. Purism’s horn is of being a…
Chromium OS
An open-source project that aims to build an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web. Chromium…
Flutter goes 1.17
Flutter is Google’s open source mobile UI framework for crafting native interfaces on iOS and Android and this new release is the first stable release of 2020. Flutter 1.17 includes Metal support for…
Ontotext open source GraphDB
Ontotext’s GraphDB is a database for managing semantic information, and the latest release, GraphDB 9.0, aims to make it easier for developers to create and operate knowledge graphs by opening multiple integration…
Netflix opens Metaflow
Netflix has open sourced Metaflow, which the developers describe as a human-centric framework for data science. The framework has been used internally at Netflix for the last two years to build and…
PayPal makes Hera Open Source
PayPal has made HERA, its High Efficiency Reliable Access to data stores, open source. Hera is a data access gateway that PayPal uses to scale database access for hundreds of billions of…
Google unveils Open Source Cryptographic Tool
Google has made available an open-source cryptographic tool called Private Join and Compute. The tool uses secure multi-party computation (MPC) to augment the core PSI protocol. More than 70 million records were stolen…