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Chris DiBona is the director of open source at Google, and he's been taking a big part in the open source and Free software ecosystem for a very long time--not least in his role with Google's Summer of Code. He recently posted on Twitter what he calls "a little rant" about software licensing -- well worth reading the whole (short!) thing.
Upshot: Be cautious and humble in…
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Harness has announced the general availability of Harness Artifact Registry, a platform capability designed to simplify how engineering teams store, secure, and govern software artifacts within modern DevSecOps pipelines.
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