Oracle Magazine, Jan/Feb 2018
ORACLE MAGAZINE JANUARY FEBRUARY 2018 36 and OSS foster innovation Why Developers are frequently motivated to join something with a bigger potential reach than their own companys commercial vision Hobby projects can hone new skills or with luck turn into the next Docker Open platforms dont just avoid lock in they allow a best of breed culture to flourish and shine a light on vulnerabilities We need to demand much more to be able to tinker with our devices change them and make them do things they were not intended for because a locked down device makes it harder or even impossible to run free software on it says Pintscher If you open up your software and technology you empower people You wont have all the best ideas of how a program should work and be used Empower others to let them help themselves and you Its becoming ever more clear as developers seek to create apps that serve diverse audiences around the world that inclusive teams build better solutions Giving them the tools to do so and the ability to modify those tools as they see fit is the way of the future Alexandra Weber Morales is Oracles director of developer content PHOTOGRAPH BY EASTIMAGES MOMENT OPEN GETTY IMAGES ILLUSTRATION BY PEDRO MURTEIRA NEXT STEPS JOIN the Oracle Developer Community EXPLORE Oracle application development services TRY Oracle Cloud services
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