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Penguin: Open Source Software Crossroads

Software

Open Source Software At A Crossroads

Over the years we’ve seen different approaches to monetizing open source, and we have examples of them all in the past year’s exits:

  • Sell support and services (Heptio acquired by VMware VMW -1.98%)
  • Sell managed open source ( MongoDB as-a-service)
  • Have an open source core, sell the bits around it ( Elastic , Pivotal IPOs)
  • Make order out of chaos ( Red Hat RHT -0.16% acquired by IBM IBM -0.09%)
  • Aggregate and accelerate other peoples’ code (GitHub acquired by Microsoft)

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Penguin: Is EU Killing #GoogleGestapo?

Access, Cloud, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Design, Software

Most do not understand that the EU's new regulations are not really about privacy and copyright, they are about killing #GoogleGestapo and particularly Google, Instagram, and YouTube. Any image, any video, that displays any brand leads to an “all stop” that requires checking and approval by the brand owner before publishing. This could be interpreted as the Deep State's very clever  way of shutting down the Internet social media complex.

On the bright side…

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Penguin: Open Value

Data, Design, Economics/True Cost, Software

OPEN VALUE: Accounting for value created in open collaborative networks – the case of SENSORICA

“A value network is a business analysis perspective that describes social and technical resources within and between businesses. The nodes in a value network represent people (or roles). [1]”

Inspired by the abstract concept of the “value network”, Sensorica is a network of real people spread across the globe that currently experiment with ways of creating value together in the real world economy. Sensorica is composed of academics, engineers, farmers and computer programmers and the core products are sensors for scientific measurement and for industrial applications.

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Penguin: Open Source Cloud Tooling HashiCorp $100M

Software

Open-source cloud tooling maker HashiCorp bags $100M round at $1.9B valuation

HashiCorp Inc., a startup that makes open-source tools for managing cloud environments and applications, today announced that it has reeled in a $100 million late-stage funding round led by IVP.

The valuation is a reflection of the rapid user growth that the startup is experiencing. HashiCorp claims that its cloud automation tools have been downloaded 45 million times in the past 12 months, up from 22 million the previous year.

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Robert Steele: Could Oracle Figure Out True Cost Economics on Top of Its Blockchain Applications?

Advanced Cyber/IO, Autonomous Internet, Liberation Technology, Software, True Cost
Robert David STEELE Vivas

ORACLE delves deeper into blockchain with four new applications

This bit caught my eye:

The four applications involve supply chain-transaction data including a track and trace capability to follow a product through its delivery from inception to market, proof of provenance for valuables like drugs, intelligent temperature tracking (what they are calling Intelligent Cold Chain) and warranty and usage tracking. Intelligent Cold chain ensures that a product that is supposed to be kept cold didn’t get exposed to higher than recommended temperatures, while warranty tracking ensures that a product was being used in a proscribed fashion and should be subject to warranty claims.

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