Broadcom pledges to lock down open source Python, Java libraries

Broadcom has decided to take responsibility for the security of some important open-source software, namely the Spring Java application framework and RabbitMQ. Australian developer Rod Johnson created the precursor to Spring in 2002, then found collaborators to tread the well-worn path towards monetizing open source software by starting a company called SpringSource to offer support and services for their creation. VMware acquired SpringSource and made it part of its Pivotal Software joint venture with EMC. Pivotal went on to pioneer the approaches to software development that became microservices and cloud-native computing. Much of the software Pivotal created later became part of VMware’s Tanzu brand. The Tanzu Kubernetes Grid lives on...

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