- Published on July 18, 2022
- In Global Tech
Is Microsoft’s VS Code really open source?
In an open core model, the company offers certain limited features that form the core of the product as free and open source (FOSS) software.
- By Zinnia Banerjee
In June, Databricks open-sourced all the Delta Late APIs as part of the new Delta Lake 2.0 release. This put a definitive end to criticism from its competitors like Cloudera, Dremio, Google (Big Lake), Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, AWS Snowflake, HPE (Ezmeral) and Vertica, who had doubted whether Delta Lake was open source or proprietary.
"The new announcement should provide continuity and clarity for users and help counter confusion (stoked in part by competitors) about whether Delta Lake is proprietary or open source," said Matt Aslett, research director at Ventana Research.
This is not the first time there has been an ambiguity regarding the open-source nature of a tool. The best example is Microsoft's VS Code.
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Zinnia Banerjee
Zinnia loves writing and it is this love that has brought her to the field of tech journalism.
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