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SE Radio 579: Arun Gupta on Open Source Strategy and Community
Sep 1, 2023
Arun Gupta, VP and GM of Open Ecosystem Initiatives at Intel, discusses open-source strategy and community, fostering open-source culture in big tech companies, the benefits of open-source contributions, the difference between intellectual knowledge and property, the importance of asking questions in software development, and Intel's involvement in open source and AI.
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Quick takeaways
- Big tech companies like Amazon, Apple, and Intel have distinct business cases for participating in the open source ecosystem.
- Intel emphasizes the value of intellectual knowledge over intellectual property in open source, gaining access to a wide range of knowledge that improves the overall quality and innovation of their products.
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Importance of Open Source Participation for Big Tech Companies
Big tech companies like Amazon, Apple, and Intel have distinct business cases for participating in the open source ecosystem. For Amazon, participation in the Kubernetes community was crucial for building Amazon EKS, their managed container service, and addressing specific issues faced at the scale of Amazon. Apple contributes to open source projects like Java and Kubernetes to ensure optimal performance for their services. Intel, being a silicon company, contributes to over 300 open source projects to align their product offerings with the latest features and optimizations in the open source community.
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