Tag: business
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Reconsidering ‘Big Tech’ Jobs in 2025
Many engineers are leaving the IT industry, seeking better benefits, work-life balance and stability by bringing their IT skills to other sectors. As Big Tech layoffs continue, software engineers are finding it harder to make the hop from tech job to tech job. Maybe you don’t need to? Increasingly, developers are looking toward traditional companies…
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OSS: 86% “Contributions” are Labor
The Linux Foundation partnered with GitHub and Harvard’s Laboratory for Innovation Science to research organization-driven investments in open source software — the how and the why — surveying over 500 organizations around the world. So what are the highlights from the published report?The median responding organization invests $520,600 (2023 USD) of annual value to OSS. Responding organizations annually invest $1.7…
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LF launches Fraud Prevention Solutions
This week Linux Foundation Charities launched “a groundbreaking open source software solution for real-time fraud prevention” named Tazama — “with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.” They’re calling it “the first-ever open source platform dedicated to enhancing fraud management in digital payments.” Until now, the financial industry has grappled with proprietary and often…
