10 Facts About Open Source You Need to Know
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The Open Source Initiative lists 110 distinct open source licenses.
The Linux kernel has nearly 17 million lines of code — up from 10,000 when it debuted in 1991 — and that number continues to grow.
The term "open source" in reference to software was coined in 1998. (The term existed before that, but only within the intelligence community.)
DistroWatch has identified a total of 809 distinct GNU/Linux distributions.
According to the latest Linux Jobs Report, 97 percent of hiring managers expected to hire professionals with Linux skills within the next six months.
As of 2012 (the most recent figures available) there were more than 4.7 million projects on GitHub, the leading hosting platform for open source projects.
As of March 2016, GitHub had 14 million users, in addition to more than 35 million repositories, making the site the largest host of source code in the world.
As of 2015, 78 percent of companies reported use open source technology, according to Black Duck Software.
Eighty-eight percent of companies are expected to increase open source contributions within the next three years.
Sixty-six percent of companies say open source is their "default approach."
The networking giant released all kinds of products and services at the end of last month.
For example, Cisco announced offerings that help businesses both bring employees back to the office and keep them at home. The company launched Cisco Remote Access and added smart cameras to the Cisco Meraki platform.
Also, the vendor said it expanded its secure access service edge (SASE) architecture. Cisco gave customers the opportunity to buy every core product associated with SASE and later turn their purchases.
Read about the trusted workplace offerings and SASE announcement.
The networking giant released all kinds of products and services at the end of last month.
For example, Cisco announced offerings that help businesses both bring employees back to the office and keep them at home. The company launched Cisco Remote Access and added smart cameras to the Cisco Meraki platform.
Also, the vendor said it expanded its secure access service edge (SASE) architecture. Cisco gave customers the opportunity to buy every core product associated with SASE and later turn their purchases.
Read about the trusted workplace offerings and SASE announcement.
It seems open source solutions are everywhere you look these days, and the promise of easily accessible and public code has become an attractive prospect to both individual developers and big companies like Microsoft (MSFT). You may consider yourself a GNU/Linux expert, but here are some facts you probably didn’t know about the world of open source.
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