| Alibaba Cloud officially became a gold member of the Linux Foundation. Alibaba Cloud stated that it will continue to increase support for open source projects and exert its strength. In addition to Linux, Ali has made outstanding contributions to well-known projects such as MySQL, JVM, and Nginx Web server. He is a member of the Apache Foundation, the FSF Foundation, and the open source organization WebScaleSQL, and will soon start sponsoring the NTF Foundation, the ISC community, and the MariaDB Foundation. . |
On February 20, the Linux Foundation, a world-renowned non-profit organization, announced that Alibaba Cloud officially became a gold member of the Linux Foundation. Alibaba Cloud stated that it will continue to increase support for open source projects and exert its strength.
At present, Alibaba Cloud is still the only Chinese Internet technology company that has joined the foundation, and it is also the only gold member from China.
"I'm very excited that Ali can become a gold medal member," said Mike Woster, Chief Operating Officer of the Linux Foundation, looking forward to more cooperation with Ali in the future.
At the heart of the Linux Foundation's work is support for the development and maintenance of the open source software banner project, the Linux Kernel. Foundation corporate partners are divided into three levels: Platinum, Gold, and Silver.
Ali's open source history
Alibaba Cloud has been continuously cooperating and building in Linux Kernel, KVM, Xen, QEMU, libvirt and other technical fields and communities. After becoming a gold member, not only can you support more than 50 key open source projects related to the Linux Foundation, but also help Ali to give back technological achievements to the entire industry through open source.
Li Jin, senior director of Alibaba Cloud, believes that participating in the Linux Foundation is to express his gratitude for the help brought by Linux on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also hopes to give more play to the power of Chinese technology companies in the foundation.
At the same time, Alibaba has been actively cooperating with international open source organizations. Alibaba is an active developer of Linux, and has submitted more than 290 patches for the Linux kernel before, leading the contribution among domestic Internet companies. In addition, Ali is also a member of the advisory board of the open source project Xen, which is a cooperative project of the Linux Foundation.
In addition to Linux, Ali has made outstanding contributions to well-known projects such as MySQL, JVM, and Nginx Web server. He is a member of the Apache Foundation, the FSF Foundation, and the open source organization WebScaleSQL, and will soon start sponsoring the NTF Foundation, the ISC community, and the MariaDB Foundation. .
Alibaba also insists on giving back its self-developed software to the community in the form of open source. In 2016 alone, projects such as Ant Design, Hilo, Weex, Freeline, Macaca, AliSQL, and EGG were open sourced. Ali's open source projects RocketMQ and Weex have entered the Apache Foundation and started incubation.
