IT Essentials: Closing the open source tap

The benefits should flow to everyone - not just those with the biggest bucket

Tom Allen
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IT Essentials: Closing the open source tap

Are open source firms right to blame cloud giants for shutting off supply, or is there a middle ground outside the on/off binary?

Picture the open source community as a tap. For years that tap has been wide open, flooding the market with useful software: from true open projects like LibreOffice, to tools like Java that act as...

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