Welcome to our latest issue of INSIDER! This issue features our newest whitepaper, "Retail & eCommerce Patent Threats & Litigation Continues at High Levels",a special report about Retail & eCommerce Litigation, worldwide headlines, a call for Linux System nominations & then some.
THE RETAIL & ECOMMERCE LANDSCAPE
Ecommerce has not replaced traditional shopping, but it has provided a new way to shop, transforming consumer expectations for both online and offline shopping experiences. The COVID-19 pandemic shocked and disrupted businesses — including Retail and eCommerce — around the world. Retailers and eCommerce stores realize there is not a single aspect of their industries that are not touched by, or doesn’t involve technology. OIN takes a deep dive into the Retail & eCommerce landscape from a historic perspective, COVID-19's impact, how the industries are integrating Open Source and protecting their Intellectual Property (IP).
The global Artificial Intelligence (AI) market — $93.5 billion in 2021 — is expected to reach $136.6 billion in 2022.
The proposed European Union AI Act — the 1st potential law on AI regulation — states Open Source developers must ensure their AI software is accurate, secure, and they must be transparent about risk and data use in technical documentation. This could result in private companies dominating AI software development and hindering innovation results that are born from Open Source. Read More [+]
The Linux Foundation Europe Launches with 12 Members
Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, the Linux Foundation Europe launches with 12 members, including OIN members Avast (AVG Technologies), SAP, SUSE and Tom Tom. Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director of the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), will serve as General Manager of the new initiative which is open to any organization and free for existing Linux Foundation members. Read More [+]
Since 2004, the President of the United States and Congress declared October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) lead a collaborative effort between government and industry to raise cybersecurity awareness nationally and internationally. Read More [+]
Data Science is quickly growing as organizations of all sizes embrace both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).
Open Source tools offer a lower barrier to entry than licensed software. Companies can experiment more efficiently. They have fewer constraints. They are more likely to attract talent. An example is Python. Read More [+]
Growth of Drone Technology & Patents Worldwide
Drone technology — mostly powered by Open Source & dominated by China — is now employed across a growing list of sectors, including Agriculture, Construction, Energy, News Reporting and Healthcare through the delivery of emergency medicine & supplies. Patents granted for drones worldwide have increased by 39% to 4,876 in the past year. Read More [+]
The European Union reaches an agreement with Google to build a model of Open Source semiconductor chips to reduce costs.
Global semiconductor sales reached $556 billion in 2021, an increase of 26.2% from 2020 and is forecast to be a trillion dollar industry by 2030. America is leading the market with 27.4% growth, but Europe (27.3%) and Asia Pacific (26.5%) are close behind. Read More [+]
Inventiva reports how Blockchain is growing with the help of Open Source technology.
Open Source fosters faster innovation to provide a better user experience. It integrates multiple services quickly. And as a result, it creates stronger solutions. Read More [+]
OIN MEMBER NEWS
We all saw first-hand how the pandemic disrupted the Logistics industry. Customers were irate. Products were scarce. Shipments were late. Stores were empty. Logistics is not exempt from increasing patent attacks from Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), resulting in more litigation.
Canonical discusses the specific benefits of Open Source to the Logistics industry in a blog, "Open Source Technology in the Logistics Sector" and releases a whitepaper, “Seeking Satisfaction: Customer-Centric Digital Transformation in Logistics."
As the Logistics industry experiences the many benefits of Open Source, more companies are joining OIN to demonstrate their public advocacy, leverage free support, access millions of Open Source and core Linux software packages and mitigate risks for litigation. Check out our growing member list >
Chief Strategy Officer (CTO) ofHuawei Technologies, Bryan Che, spoke to SiliconRepublic.com about the importance of Open Source and its role in creating a sustainable future in such areas such as Energy efficiency. Read More [+]
The Linux Foundationlaunches an Open Source Digital Wallet project — managed under the new Open Wallet Foundation (OWF) — to develop a secure, multi-purpose Open Source engine anyone can use to build interoperable wallets. Read More [+]
Meta — formerly Facebook— has transitioned PyTorch to the Linux Foundation. Pytorch is one of the most important and successful Open Source Machine Learning (ML) software projects in the world today, with more than 2,400 contributors,150,000 users and 60,000 GitHub coders.Read More [+]
One of the largest Internet firms in Europe, Yandex, has made the userver framework’s source code and documentation available. The Apache 2.0 open license governs the distribution of this 1st set of free tools that have been evaluated by Yandex at scale. Read More [+]
Our CEO, Keith Bergelt, will share how OIN contributes to “The Value of an Open Source Community: A Place Where — as Aristotle said — “Our whole is greater than the sum of our parts”
Keith Bergelt will present “An Inside Look at Why Litigation from Patent Assertion Entities is at an All-Time High.”
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
OIN's Linux System definition is accepting nominations for Open Source Software (OSS) packages to be included in our next update. The deadline for submissions is November 15th at 12pm EST.
LibrePlanet 2023, the 15th Free Software Foundation's (FSF) conference on ethical technology and user freedom, will be held in the Spring of 2023, both online and in Boston, MA. The call for sessions is open and will close on November 2nd at 12 pm EST. The focus is examining free software through the lens of "Charting the Course."
