Dan Kioria

The benefits of open source for both public and private sectors cannot be belittled. As such, it’s not surprising that even central government have now realized that they too could benefit from open source development. In a podcast by Software Engineering Daily, Jeff Meyerson talks to Kevin Xu about

In their Changelog podcast #432 entitled “Big Breaches (and how to avoid them) [https://changelog.com/podcast]”, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo interview Neil Daswani who calls attention to the fact that “America has been hacked,” just in case that fact had escaped anyone. And of course, it’s not just

Big commercial software companies are nowadays greatly benefiting from open source software. A lot of open source software creators feel that such companies should fairly compensate the creators of the software they use. However, these companies might be reluctant to compensate open source developers because of the risks that pen

Decentralized governance is the underlying principle of open source development. No one can belittle the strides the open source development space has made. Open source software is now driving big businesses. Large corporations that traditionally preferred to keep their development teams closed are now beginning to appreciate the impact of

PrivacyBrave has announced that they are about to launch a new search engine that respects privacy. Governments and big tech companies are all trying to take over the world’s information infrastructure. A search engine that offers privacy is likely to get a lot of folks excited. Brave already has

Blockchain is ObsoleteWait; What? That’s most probably the reaction most of those reading this would have. A lot will find it preposterous that anyone would make such a statement about the one of coolest things in tech right now, that is blockchain. Everyone is excited about the privacy and

In the past, people in a community of a few hundred people knew each other. They knew someone who could vouch for a stranger. People were Authentic! They were who they claimed to be. Those days are long gone, and that’s unfortunate. We now live in a world where

The Late Dan Kaminsky, believed that the internet was never meant to be secure. This is what he said in an interview in 2016. “The Internet was never designed to be secure. The Internet was designed to move pictures of cats. We are very good at moving pictures of cats.

The world of software licensing has always been divided into two models. Proprietary and open source models. These two licensing models have served as well for long. However, there have always been concerns about compensation within the open-source development world. Open-source developers, whether in big teams, small teams, or as

The idea of a cyber attack surface has been rigorously sold to organizations by cybersecurity companies and experts. Dark Reading [https://www.darkreading.com/] is about to have a full webinar about it. The webinar has attracted speakers from cybersecurity giants such as Palo Alto [https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/]. The

You’ve probably heard of the recent colonial pipeline hack. The colonial pipeline transports almost half of the fuel supplies of the American east coast. It is part of USA’s national critical infrastructure. Pump prices rose shortly after the attack. Colonial pipeline has to pay the attackers a $5

In our previous post [https://dankioria.com/untitled-2/], we explored how the occupancy permit approach used to get real estate professionals paid can be used to get open-source developers paid. The question now is, what value do those who pay for the software get, if the code their software is

InfoWorld asked the question about open source economics in 2009, and, as with the broken Internet issue, it has not been answered. And so the site continues to ask: How do we evolve open-source business models to ensure vendors get paid without resorting to the same lock-in tactics that the

Picture this; Would you agree to have all your personal information put up on a public billboard? Obviously, you wouldn’t! You care too much about your security and privacy. Let's assume billboard owners need that information there to be able to render certain crucial services to you. What if