Open-Source

I took the Linux Foundation’s Fundamentals of Professional Open Source Management to get some ideas about how to professionalize the way we incorporate open source into our products at work. Since we sell software to customers, we need to make sure that we understand the ins and outs of the various licenses and are doing all the right things. I’m pretty sure we are but having a bit of a policy around how open source is selected and used would be a good idea.

I just saw that RedHat is changing the way they are running the CentOS project. I’m not a fan of this and it seems like a money grab. I’ve used CentOS where I needed the equivalent of RHEL but didn’t need support (e.g. experimentation, testing, etc.) I do have a RHEL Developer Subscription, so I could use the real McCoy for some of this testing, but it just isn’t as convenient in some cases.