HOW AMAZON’S AWS ARM ALLEGEDLY MAKES PROFITS OFF OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE; LEAVING CLOUD COMPUTING STARTUPS LANGUISHING

Source:-firstpost.com Elastic, a software startup in Amsterdam, was rapidly building its business and had grown to 100 employees. Then Amazon came along. In October 2015, Amazon’s cloud computing arm announced it was copying Elastic’s free software tool, which people use to search and analyse data, and would sell it as a paid service. Amazon went ahead even though Elastic’s product, called Elasticsearch, was already available on Amazon. Within a year, Amazon was generating more money from what Elastic had built,

GitHub Seeks Security Dominance With Developers

Source:-forbes.com GitHub has decided to make a play for being a one-stop-shop for all things code security with a series of announcements made at its annual GitHub Universe conference. GitHub has mapped what it believes is a generally useful workflow for how various people involved in security—developers, security researchers, supply-chain partners, vulnerability database providers, etc.—work together to write and maintain secure code. It has then built features and tools, and in some cases acquiring companies, to match these user needs