Security Could be the Proverbial Straw that Breaks the Open Source Community’s Back

Written by ayalaGoldstein | Published 2019/08/22
Tech Story Tags: security | open-source-community | open-source | open-source-repository | github | microsoft | red-hat | latest-tech-stories

TLDR A security issue in a small open source project highlights gaps in the relationship between the businesses who use open source components and the community of developers who write the code. Microsoft grabbed major headlines by acquiring open source repository GitHub for $7.5 billion, followed by IBM breaking records with their $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat. Google, Facebook, Intel, and Pivotal are only a few of the other big names that contribute heavily to open source projects. In fact, the term “free” is ‘free’ when it comes to open-source components.via the TL;DR App

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Written by ayalaGoldstein | Ayala writes for WhiteSource about everything open source and DevSecOps, and the two combined!
Published by HackerNoon on 2019/08/22