A kindOn April 19 this year, the rotor began to rotate, creating history. The first flight of “Ingenuity” lasted 39.1 seconds-which made this small helicopter the first aircraft to perform a controlled powered flight on another planet.The mission was organized by NASA and was supported by more than 12,000 developers from all over the world: they used the open source on GitHub to guide the code for GitHub software From Ingenuity at.
This example impressively demonstrates the huge potential that can be developed when countless people work together. Open software means that the source code is open, and anyone who wants to participate can edit it. At the same time, the code is not protected-anyone can use it to develop their own solutions. The resulting creativity and innovation power are enormous.
For users-whether companies, authorities or individuals-there will be almost no way to bypass open software in the future. Almost everyone is already using open source, even if they don’t know it. Analysis company Synopsis has determined that 96% of published software applications contain open source code. In public debates, especially in the public sector, the dichotomy of “proprietary and open source” still often appears. They no longer exist in this form.
The rapid expansion of open source has caused many applications to run code from different sources. It is almost impossible to draw a line between open software and commercial software. Technology companies rely on open source. Microsoft Has taken over GitHub, the leading developer platform for open source software. Company-wide policies make it easier for employees to use open source, contribute code to open source databases, and release open source software.
There are currently 35,000 Microsoft employees who have GitHub accounts and contribute code to open source projects-the structure of the IT world is changing, and open source is almost everywhere in the future. “Open source or proprietary” is no longer a decision between one party or the other, and both provide a wide range of options. Using these cleverly and combining them cleverly is a way to keep up with the digital backlog in the country, economy, and society. When you put the open source revolution in the main development path of information technology, it becomes obvious why it is so important. IT was originally shaped by hardware. The rise of commercial software began in the 1980s. At the turn of the century, open source established itself as an alternative.
We are currently seeing hardware and software growing together in the cloud-the operation of hardware plus software is becoming the core of IT companies’ business. In the cloud infrastructure of hyperscalers, open source is already the code of choice in many situations: even in our Azure cloud, there are more virtual machines based on the open Linux operating system than Windows. Linux is the fastest growing platform in Azure. In fields such as artificial intelligence, big data analysis, or quantum computing, open software is even more important.
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Open source may be the most powerful collaboration tool in the world. Because in essence, it is just a tool for software development cooperation. It does not divide companies or national boundaries, but builds bridges for hundreds of thousands of developers around the world. Anyone who uses open source development software can take advantage of the largest developer library available and use their rich ideas for joint innovation. Given the shortage of IT experts, this has a major impact on the German and European economies.
