FLOSS Weekly 617

Open source business model.

How is open source utilized in the workplace? On this episode of FLOSS Weekly, veteran co-hosts Aaron Newcomb and Jonathan Bennett join Doc Searls in a lively discussion of open source news in workplaces—both professional and personal. Topics include: open source business and business models; involvements of Google, Microsoft and IBM in making open source history; a Microsoft repository showing up in the Raspberry Pi Linux; hacking current and retro gear; open hardware, including open FPGAs and RISC-V; and much more.

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Links

• Explaining Open Source: The Future Business Model?
• Top Banks Join Linux and Open-Source Patent Protection Group
• Heads up: Microsoft Repo Secretly Installed on All Raspberry Pi’s Linux OS
• RGB to HDMI Github
• In the Era of Open Hybrid Cloud, Open Source Skills Matter More Than Proprietary Software Skills