IBM’s recent acquisition of Red Hat for $34 billion was a surprise to many in the open source community while also a cause for concern within, and for, the open source ecosystem.

Bob Young and Marc Ewing created a defining moment when they founded Red Hat 25 years ago. They helped fuel not only what has become the norm for development and open source but also the widespread adoption of open source by companies. Not surprisingly, Red Hat became synonymous with both the Linux operating system (OS) and...

Opensource.com notes that, due to their widespread use, open source languages will enable and undergird many technological innovations. As part of almost every business today, that includes innovations within your own organization. Coders of all stripes (developers, engineers, QA, DevOps, data scientists) are using open source languages to accomplish a variety of tasks. The trade-off here, however, is that these niche languages are replacing easier-to-adopt, general-purpose languages.

Enthusiasts have been...