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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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.
Intel's Approach to Intellectual Knowledge and Intellectual Property in Open Source
Intel emphasizes the value of intellectual knowledge over intellectual property in open source. By participating in open source communities, Intel gains access to a wide range of knowledge, tutorials, community wisdom, and debugging stories that improve the overall quality and innovation of their products. Unlike intellectual property that is proprietary to a company, intellectual knowledge is shared across the community, which facilitates faster development and problem-solving. Intel's contributions to open source projects like Kubernetes, OpenJDK, and PyTorch reflect their commitment to leveraging and contributing to the collective knowledge of the community.
Securing Open Source Code: The Power of Code Review and Collective Effort
The open source community operates on the belief that 'given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.' With diverse contributors from various companies, open source projects benefit from a wide range of perspectives in identifying and fixing bugs quickly. Companies like Intel actively engage in open source vulnerability disclosure processes to ensure timely fixes and shared responsibility for security. The collective effort in the open source community fosters trust, enables faster responses to vulnerabilities, and continuously improves the quality and security of open source code.
Building Open Source Culture and Strategy within Companies
Developing an open source culture within a company requires more than just having a strategy or top-down management support. Companies like Intel emphasize the need for a strong culture that embraces open source principles and processes. Open source program offices (OSPOs) play a crucial role in establishing this culture by providing guidance, ensuring compliance, and fostering collaboration. Companies need to incentivize and empower their engineers to contribute to open source projects, allocate time for open source work, and create an environment that encourages collaboration and knowledge sharing. Open source events and internal hackathons also play a significant role in nurturing an open source culture within organizations.
Arun Gupta, Vice President and General Manager of Open Ecosystem Initiatives at Intel Corporation, discusses open-source strategy and community with SE Radio host Kanchan Shringi. They explore the business case and business model for why and how big tech participates in the open-source ecosystem. Arun describes ways to foster a culture of engagement with open source within companies such as Intel, Amazon, and Apple. They then consider how the principles can be applied to closed-source software within a company. Finally, they discuss some of the benefits that Intel has gained from more than 20 years of open source contributions and look at the company’s plan for the year ahead. SE Radio is rought to you by IEEE Software magazine and IEEE Computer Society.
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