Episode 293: Don’t steal my kid’s bike, steal my bike

This week we discuss the Supreme Court’s Ruling in Google vs. Oracle and the future of open source business models. Plus, do you really need a yard? Rundown API’s for Everyone Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle’s API copyright case (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/5/22367851/google-oracle-supreme-court-ruling-java-android-api) SCOTUS Decision Oracle vs. Google (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf) Xinuos—owners of what used to be SCO—file suit against Red Hat and IBM (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/xinuos-finishes-picking-up-scos-mantle-by-suing-red-hat-and-ibm/) OSS Business Models The Identity Crisis Facing Open Source Companies in the Cloud (https://www.tomtunguz.com/open-source-cloud-identity-crisis/) GitHub Sponsors (https://github.com/sponsors/community) Everyone uses OpenSSL, but nobody's willing to fix it — except the Linux Foundation (https://venturebeat.com/2014/05/29/everyone-uses-openssl-but-nobodys-willing-to-fix-it-except-the-linux-foundation/) Troubles with the Open Source Gig Economy and Sustainability Tip Jar (https://www.aniszczyk.org/2019/03/25/troubles-with-the-open-source-gig-economy-and-sustainability-tip-jar/) Tidelift | A managed open source subscription backed by creators and maintainers (https://tidelift.com/) Relevant to your interests Briefing: Amazon Plans for Return to ‘Office-Centric Culture’ (https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/11454c) Theme Studio: Create VS Code Themes! (https://themes.vscode.one/) Software development is a losers game (https://thehosk.medium.com/software-development-is-a-losers-game-fc68bb30d7eb) Amazon apologizes (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/3/22365330/amazon-apology-pee-bottles-worker-warehouse-union-pocan) Gitlab acquired Peach Fuzzer Pro then open-sourced most of it (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/protocol-fuzzer-ce) VMware Taps Knative for Tanzu Kubernetes Abstraction - SDxCentral (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/vmware-taps-knative-for-tanzu-kubernetes-abstraction/2021/04/) LG confirms it’s getting out of the smartphone business (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/4/22346084/lg-exits-smartphone-business) Personal data of 533 million Facebook users leaks online (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/4/22366822/facebook-personal-data-533-million-leaks-online-email-phone-numbers) Spotify opens a second personalized playlist to sponsors, after ‘Discover Weekly’ in 2019 (https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/05/spotify-opens-a-second-personalized-playlist-to-sponsors-after-discover-weekly-in-2019/) Google will stop using Oracle's finance software and adopt SAP instead (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/05/google-will-stop-using-oracle-finance-software-switch-to-sap.html) Biden allows Trump admin's H-1B visa program suspension to expire (https://www.ciodive.com/news/h1B-program-suspension-biden/597813/) Clubhouse Discusses Funding at About $4 Billion Value (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-06/clubhouse-is-said-to-discuss-funding-at-about-4-billion-value) Note-taking app Mem raises $5.6 million from Andreessen Horowitz (https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/06/note-taking-app-mem-raises-5-6-million-from-andreessen-horowitz/) IBM Delivers on Cloud Promise for Financial Services - Container Journal (https://containerjournal.com/features/ibm-delivers-on-cloud-promise-for-financial-services/) IBM creates a COBOL compiler – for Linux on x86 (https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/07/ibm_cobol_x86_linux/) Target CIO Mike McNamara makes a cloud declaration of independence (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/target-cio-mike-mcnamara-multicloud) T-Mobile’s 5G home internet service has become a reality (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/7/22312155/t-mobile-5g-home-internet-wireless-broadband) KKR hands Box a $500M lifeline (https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/08/kkr-hands-box-a-500m-lifeline/) Cisco and HashiCorp Join Forces to Deliver Infrastructure as Code Automation Across Hybrid Cloud (https://blogs.cisco.com/cloud/cisco-and-hashicorp-join-forces-to-deliver-infrastructure-as-code-automation-across-hybrid-cloud) Redis Labs doubles value to $2bn in 9 months with $110m Series G funding round (https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/07/redis_labs_doubles_value_to/) Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know. (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres) JAB Guidance on CentOS Linux End of Life (https://www.fedramp.gov/2021-03-30-CentOS-Linux-End-of-Life/) Nonsense Inside a viral website (https://notfunatparties.substack.com/p/inside-a-viral-website) Engineers Sneakily Upgrade Apple M1 Mac Mini With More Storage, RAM (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/mac-m1-mod) Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (http://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Listener Feedback Ryan from DataDog wants you to know they are hiring a Technical Writer (https://www.datadoghq.com/careers/detail/?gh_jid=2220727) and Technical Curriculum Developer (https://www.datadoghq.com/careers/detail/?gh_jid=2220736) REMOTE available. Conferences SpringOne.io (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th (https://springone.io/cfp). Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0014/), and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0015/). VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event (https://connect.tanzu.vmware.com/EMEA_P5_FE_Q122_Event_VMware-Tanzu-Up-Close.html), April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Formula 1: Drive to Survive (https://www.netflix.com/title/80204890). Coté: Peanut M&M’s; Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/Vq__yk6faOI) Photo Credit (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf)