Uber Joins Linux Foundation Cementing Commitment To Open Source Tools (techcrunch.com) 30
At the 2018 Uber Open Summit, Uber announced it was joining the Linux Foundation as a Gold Member, making a firm commitment to using and contributing to open source tools. TechCrunch reports: Uber CTO Thuan Pham sees the Linux Foundation as a place for companies like his to nurture and develop open source projects. "Open source technology is the backbone of many of Uber's core services and as we continue to mature, these solutions will become ever more important," he said in a blog post announcing the partnership. "Uber has made significant investments in shared software development and community collaboration through open source over the years, including contributing the popular open source project Jaeger, a distributed tracing system, to the Linux Foundation's Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2017," an Uber spokesperson told TechCrunch. As the report mentions, it took the ride-hailing service a long time for them to join the Linux Foundation. "Uber has been long known for making use of open source in its core tools working on over 320 open source projects and repositories from 1500 contributors involving over 70,000 commits, according to data provided by the company," reports TechCrunch.
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ISO 26262 compliant compiler? (Score:2)
So what are you using to compile all the self driving vehicle code?
FUCK THIS PROPAGANDA REPETITION. They are NOT OSS (Score:2, Insightful)
Not only is all of Uber proprietary and this "outreach PR" complete bullshit, but does anyone remember the "God mode" app they secretly used to both hide from regulators and spy on users? This PR move is ridiculous on its face.
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Because you need to adjust your view preferences, maybe?
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GnuBall? OpenBall? LibreBall?
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who else has joined? (Score:5, Informative)
AT&T
Cisco
Fujitsu
Hitachi
Huawei
IBM
Intel
Microsoft
Oracle
Qualcomm
Samsung
VMware
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Everyone can join, even Uber, it is all about free access to code after all, nothing else, not politics, not sjw nonsense, just the code. Whilst everyone can join, arse holes can still be banned from attending meetings if they prove to be anti-social at meetings, similar for other styles of communication but they will always have access to code and be able to contribute code, with that code valued purely upon it's own merits.
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> it is all about free access to code after all, nothing else, not politics
_Life_ is about politics. Free access to code, without returning information to the community, has led many companies to participating in a tragedy of the commons. One of the most infamous examples of a company participating in, and then abusing, the free software and open source communities was SCO, who abused various Linux software of containing SysV UNIX code which it turned out SCO did not even own.
Oh, they're committed. (Score:2)
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On the flip side, it will be amusing to see how to Uber brogrammers will fare against the purple haired Code Of Conduct supporters the next time an SJW flame war starts in the discussion forums. Someone get me some popcorn!
Open source? Hah! (Score:3)
Maybe they can open-source the driver and rider apps so that people who know how to code can fix the myriads of bugs and misfeatures. I'm not holding my breath though. Trying to talk to their support is like arguing with a mentally-challenged six-year-old with no long term memory.