Juul Labs, an e-cigarette startup that has raised more than $12 billion in funding, is reportedly nearing a deal to purchase a high-rise building in downtown San Francisco to house its rapidly growing staff. According to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday, Juul has its sights on 123 Mission Street, a 29-floor building near the city's Transbay area in the Financial District. The company recently purchased a renovated historic building near Pier 70 in the city's developing Dogpatch neighborhood, the report said. Juul spokesperson Ted Kwong would not confirm the report, but said that the company had grown from 200 employees to 2,000 in the last year, with a a majority of the workers located in the company's San Francisco headquarters. "As a result, we are currently looking for additional office space in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area, but we have nothing to announce at this time," Kwong told Business Insider via email. Juul first gained notoriety for its aggressive marketing for its flavored e-cigarettes aimed at teens. The company is now partly owned by Altria, the tobacco giant that makes Marlboro cigarettes, and has come under intense scrutiny from federal and local health officials for its claims that vaping is a healthy alternative to cigarettes. According to the San Francisco Chronicle report, the building in question is five times the size of the company's current office space, and was last sold in 2018 for $290 million. If Juul purchases the building, the deal will be one of the largest in San Francisco history for a tech company that doesn't specialize in real estate, according to the report. The company's Dogpatch presence ignited a firestorm among San Francisco politicians and residents, and officials introduced legislation in March that would prohibit e-cigarette companies like Juul from occupying city-owned property, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report. Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: Facial recognition is almost perfectly accurate — here's why that could be a problem from https://www.businessinsider.com/juul-labs-reportedly-purchasing-downtown-san-francisco-high-rise-2019-5
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Google employees in offices around the world are staging a May Day "sit-in" on Wednesday to protest what they say is pattern of of retaliation against workers who speak out for change at the tech giant. The sit-in was prompted after two employees who helped organize the November Walkouts — Meredith Whittaker and Claire Stapleton — said Google demoted them and forced them to give up some of their duties in response to their organizing efforts. "My manager started ignoring me, my work was given to other people, and I was told to go on medical leave, even though I'm not sick," Stapleton said in an internal email sent to Google employees. "While my work has been restored, the environment remains hostile and I consider quitting nearly every day." On Wednesday, other Google employees are joining Whittaker and Stapleton in sharing their stories of retaliation. The sit-ins are taking place at 11 AM local time in offices across the globe. In New York, there were reportedly more than 200 employees who took part in the demonstration, reading and listening to instances of retaliation.
Employees in Cambridge, London, and Pittsburgh have also reportedly taken part. Stories will also be shared throughout the day on Twitter via the hashtag, #NotOkGoogle. In response to the sit-ins, a Google spokesperson told Business Insider in a statement: "We prohibit retaliation in the workplace and publicly share our very clear policy. To make sure that no complaint raised goes unheard at Google, we give employees multiple channels to report concerns, including anonymously, and investigate all allegations of retaliation." This story is developing. Do you work at Google? Got a tip? Contact this reporter via Signal or WhatsApp at +1 (209) 730-3387 using a non-work phone, email at [email protected], Telegram at nickbastone, or Twitter DM at @nickbastone. Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: We unboxed the $1,980 Samsung Galaxy Fold — here's what comes inside from https://www.businessinsider.com/google-sit-in-to-protest-workplace-retaliation-2019-5
A Norwegian Cruise Line employee sexually assaulted an 11-year-old passenger, a lawsuit alleges. According to the plaintiff, referred to in the complaint as Jane Doe, Norwegian failed to provide a safe environment for passengers. The company did not properly screen, train, or keep track of its employees and did not give passengers a way to prevent employees from entering their cabins without their permission, the lawsuit alleges. Read more: Sexual assault is the most common crime reported on cruise ships In 2018, a steward on Norwegian's Spirit cruise ship entered Jane Doe's cabin after being told to not disturb the plaintiff's daughter, referred to in the complaint as Janie Doe, as she was resting, according to the lawsuit. The steward, who was around 27 at the time of the alleged incident, entered the room with a master key on four separate occasions, touching and ultimately sexually assaulting Janie Doe, the lawsuit alleges. Before leaving the cabin, the steward allegedly told Janie Doe to refrain from telling anyone about the sexual assault. Janie Doe was then subjected to questioning conducted exclusively by male employees for around three-and-a-half hours in the ship's infirmary, the lawsuit alleges. According to the lawsuit, Jane Doe made multiple requests for her and Janie Doe to leave the infirmary and was not permitted to do so until she "demanded" they be allowed to exit. Norwegian Cruise Line did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Sexual assault is the most common crime reported on cruise ships, according to data from the Department of Transportation (DOT). In 2018, cruise lines reported 82 alleged sexual assaults to the DOT. SEE ALSO: A lawyer warns of a legal nightmare you can face on a ship Join the conversation about this story » from https://www.businessinsider.com/norwegian-cruise-line-employee-sexually-assaulted-young-passenger-lawsuit-alleges-2019-5
To sell its expensive drug, a drugmaker allegedly resorted to bribing doctors and, when that failed, their office staffs, with everything from Starbucks gift cards to free Las Vegas trips, lavish dinners, sponsored happy hours and karaoke excursions. That's according to allegations in a whistleblower lawsuit by two former employees of the company Questcor. Questcor was acquired by the drugmaker Mallinckrodt in 2014. The Pennsylvania district court suit was initially filed in 2012 and unsealed last month, because the US government decided to intervene. Mallinckrodt shares dropped 14% on Tuesday after CNN reported on the lawsuit, wiping out more than $200 million in market value. At the heart of this lawsuit and others is a controversial, decades-old drug for infantile spasms called Acthar, which became highly profitable for Mallinckrodt thanks to big price increases and pushing doctors to use it "off-label" for new conditions, including to treat the chronic disease multiple sclerosis. Acthar cost as much as $150,000 per patient by 2012, according to the whistleblower complaint, much more than a generic steroid alternative, which could cost as little as $800. The suit alleges that's why Questcor turned to bribes. Acthar's main competitor "is cheaper, requires a shorter course of treatment and is the standard-of-care for treating exacerbations of MS. Questcor's response to this challenge has been to bribe physicians to prescribe and promote H.P. Acthar Gel instead of Solu-Medrol," the rival product, the complaint alleges. Mallinckrodt said in a statement that the lawsuit was years old, and allegations largely have to do with "legacy Questcor conduct." The company has been cooperating with the Department of Justice and participating in "advanced settlement talks" over the last few months, it said. "As the lawsuit principally concerns allegations of legacy conduct prior to Mallinckrodt's acquisition of Acthar Gel, we do not envision any impact to how Mallinckrodt conducts business today," it said. "Mallinckrodt strongly disagrees with the substance of the complaint and the sensational characterization of the allegations." Alleged bribes ranged from free junkets to Las Vegas to karaoke excursions and more, whistleblowers sayThe alleged bribes given as examples in the lawsuit range dramatically. One star sales specialist took doctors on junkets to Las Vegas and gave them spa treatments. The salesperson bragged to one of the whistleblowers of her success going on karaoke excursions with Asian physicians, according to the complaint. Another doctor, who practiced in Yonkers, NY, started prescribing Acthar after being taken to a lavish dinner with her husband and other doctors at a restaurant in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Westchester, the complaint said. And when doctors wouldn't take meetings with salespeople, the sales personnel allegedly turned to bribing office staff with Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks gift cards. Some of those gifts were valued at as much as $500, according to the complaint. Those alleged bribes were just some of the many ways the company allegedly pushed Acthar prescriptions, according to the lawsuit. Other methods included doling out research funds to doctors who promoted the product and "exorbitant" speaker fees of $2,000 a presentation or even more, the suit said. One doctor at the University of Texas, for instance, was allegedly paid $500 a patient for each research trial he led testing out Acthar, plus more to promote the results to doctors all around the US. "These trials are of dubious scientific value because they were neither placebo-controlled nor double-blind," the lawsuit says. "None have been published in peer-reviewed journals, none have led to an application to expand the FDA approval for H.P. Acthar Gel, and none have demonstrated that H.P. Acthar Gel is any more efficacious than Solu-Medrol," the competitor. Join the conversation about this story » from https://www.businessinsider.com/bribes-allegedly-helped-mallinckrodt-sell-acthar-lawsuit-2019-4
The FBI on Friday raided the San Francisco offices of uBiome, a startup that sells tests that sequence the microbiome, or the assortment of bacteria and other microbes that live in our bodies. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the raid, reported that the FBI is investigating uBiome's billing practices. UBiome sent Business Insider this statement: "We are cooperating fully with federal authorities on this matter. We look forward to continuing to serve the needs of healthcare providers and patients." The FBI confirmed that its agents were "conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity" at the address of uBiome's headquarters, but declined to provide further information. UBiome sells doctor-ordered tests including SmartJane, its test that looks at the vaginal microbiome to test for sexually transmitted diseases as well as chronic vaginal infections, and SmartGut, which looks at the gut microbiome to test for gut conditions and metabolic disorders. Both can be covered by health insurance. uBiome also sells a direct-to-consumer test that doesn't require a prescription called the "Explorer" test. CNBC reports that uBiome routinely charged patients' plans twice for tests. CNBC also reported that health insurer Anthem had flagged the company for its over-billing practices. Anthem did not immediately return a request for comment. Scientists have been working on ways to use the microbiome to unlock new treatments for difficult diseases. It's led to new companies — both on the medical side and in agriculture— that are taking a range of approaches to looking at the microbiome. It's often seen as the "forgotten organ." Join the conversation about this story » from https://www.businessinsider.com/microbiome-testing-startup-ubiome-fbi-raid-2019-4
Facebook said it plans to pay a fine of $3 billion to $5 billion for potentially violating a previous settlement with federal regulators about the social network's privacy practices. "In the first quarter of 2019, we reasonably estimated a probable loss and recorded an accrual of $3.0 billion in connection with the inquiry of the FTC into our platform and user data practices," Facebook said in its first-quarter earnings report on Wednesday. "The matter remains unresolved, and there can be no assurance as to the timing or the terms of any final outcome," Facebook said. Facebook didn't provide details about the inquiry or the specific data practices under scrutiny by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). So what is Facebook expecting to pay all this money for? The FTC began investigating the social-media giant in March 2018 after its mishandling of user data, according to reports. That incident involved the Trump-linked political-research firm Cambridge Analytica, which misappropriated personal information of tens of millions of Facebook members for use in targeted political ads. But that's just one of many privacy missteps by Facebook in recent years, including a hacking incident that left personal information of 30 million users exposed. As Business Insider's Rob Price reported this month, Facebook also uploaded the email contact information of 1.5 million new users without informing them or seeking their consent. Which of these incidents are covered by the $3 billion to $5 billion fine, and which are not, will be crucial for Facebook and its investors going forward.
The settlement that Facebook may have violated was reached in 2011 over separate charges of privacy violations. As a part of that agreement — known as a consent decree — Facebook agreed to get users' consent before sharing their data with third parties, like Cambridge Analytica. It also agreed to takes steps to better protect users' data. Reports of the potential fine became public in February, but no figures were given at the time other than estimates that it could be in the "multibillion-dollar" range. Facebook's call out of the fine in its earnings report confirms earlier estimates, though no definite numbers will be known until a settlement with the FTC is reached or the case goes to trial. Facebook finished Q1 with $45 billion in cash on its balance sheet. Shares of Facebook jumped 5% in after-hours trading on Wednesday. Join the conversation about this story » from https://www.businessinsider.com/why-facebook-paying-3-billion-ftc-fine-2019-4
In an interview with Nancy Gibbs at the TIME 100 event on Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he wished his company's fight with the FBI over the ability to unlock an iPhone had actually gone to court. "Our battle was over whether or not the government could force Apple to create a tool that could put hundreds of millions of people at risk in order to get into a phone — and we said no, the law does not support the government having the authority to do that," Cook told Gibbs. In December 2015, the FBI obtained an iPhone 5C from one of the two perpetrators behind a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, that killed 14 people and injured 22 others. Police killed the two attackers in a shootout, so the FBI was unable to get into the phone it recovered, as it had a 4-digit passcode enabled. The NSA was unable to unlock it, however, so the FBI asked Apple to help build a new operating system that could be installed on the phone and disable its security features — something Tim Cook called at the time the "software equivalent of cancer." Apple opposed the order, citing the security and privacy risks it would pose to other customers, and a hearing was scheduled for March 22. But just one day before the scheduled hearing with Apple, the government said it found a third party that could help unlock the iPhone, and delayed the hearing. The FBI formally withdrew its request to Apple one week later. "I wish that case went to court, to be honest," Cook said on Tuesday. "It was dropped the day before, and now after the Inspector General reports have come out, our worst fears have been confirmed: that it was a very rigged case to begin with." The Inspector General report Cook alluded to, which was published in March 2018, mentioned how "there were misunderstandings and incorrect assumptions" among people working on this case at the FBI, and that Apple's involvement wasn't actually necessary in the first place. The FBI has a Remote Operations Unit (ROU) that's responsible for handling mobile devices like these — and this is the same unit that ultimately figured out how to unlock the shooter's iPhone — but the FBI failed to get the ROU involved before issuing its order to Apple for assistance. "This was not the government's finest hour," Cook told Gibbs. "I have personally never seen the government apparatus move against a company like it did here in a very dishonest manner. I felt like the naive guy that thought these things didn't happen. They were trying to prevent a discussion or a dialogue or a debate about this. I hope that we've advanced much further than that." Cook said privacy has become much more meaningful to mainstream Americans now, and reaffirmed Apple's stance on why it's so important. "In the world where everything is totally open, people begin to guard what it is they will say. Think about where society goes if we're afraid to tell each other our opinions — if we're afraid that somebody's listening, or watching, or monitoring, or we're under surveillance. This is a bad thing inherently in a very broad way, not to mention the manipulation that can go on with pitting different groups against each other." You can watch Cook's whole interview with Gibbs from the TIME 100 event below (Cook's portion begins about 45 minutes into the video, since the event is still ongoing). SEE ALSO: Apple will help rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral after its massive fire, according to CEO Tim Cook DON'T MISS: The 20 best iPhone tips and tricks to make your life easier Join the conversation about this story » from https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-apple-fbi-san-bernardino-very-rigged-case-2019-4
A group of Microsoft employees are speaking out to support an online protest in China over grueling, 12-hour workdays that organizers say are unhealthy, illegal and increasingly common. About 20 Microsoft employees signed an open letter published on Monday in support of the so-called 996.ICU project in China. Tech workers in China started the 996.ICU project in March on code-sharing website GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft. The numbers 996 refer to the concept of working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. Such hours, the workers say, are illegal in China even though they say many employers in the country expect it of their workers. The name 996.ICU refers to an ironic saying among Chinese workers: "工作 996,生病 ICU" or "Work by '996', sick in ICU," as in the intensive care unit of a hospital. The 996.ICU project is a repository of what is allegedly evidence of these working conditions, as well as a new software license designed to advocate for workers' rights. More specifically, any software project created under the terms of this license cannot be used by companies that break labor laws, per the language contained therein. Monday's letter was signed by 50 tech employees altogether, including several from Google, urging Microsoft and GitHub not to remove the 996.ICU project from the GitHub site. Already, Chinese browsers from Tencent, Alibaba, and others have restricted or blocked access to the 996.ICU project, the Microsoft employees' letter said. "We, the workers of Microsoft and GitHub, support the 996.ICU movement and stand in solidarity with tech workers in China. We know this is a problem that crosses national borders. These same issues permeate across full time and contingent jobs at Microsoft and the industry as a whole," the letter said. CensorshipThe 996 schedule has become a controversial topic. Jack Ma, the cofounder of Alibaba, recently described the 996 schedule last week as a "blessing" for young workers, according to Reuters. A Microsoft employee who wished to remain anonymous told Business Insider that employees started this petition because they were concerned that Microsoft may be facing pressure to censor the project, in the wake of the alleged moves from Tencent and Alibaba. "We must entertain the possibility that Microsoft and GitHub will be pressured to remove the repository as well," the letter said. The Microsoft and GitHub employees who wrote the petition want to make sure that the project to keep the project remains uncensored and available to all, especially in China.
' Developers outside China have supported this project as well. In less than a month, this project has garnered over 2,500 contributions from 533 developers. The project has also been starred nearly 230,000 times — a way for GitHub users to show their support or interest for a project. Standing in solidarityPooya Parsa, an open source developer from Iran, helped translate the project to Persian. He said a "996" schedule is not common in Iran, but he has previously had experiences with overworking. "I used to work on such schedule for 1 to 2 years which made serious health problems to me and stopping to pay attention to other daily living matters like family, body health and even improving programming skills," Parsa told Business Insider. "Forcing or even allowing developers to work on such schedule may help short-term success but it finally takes creativity, innovation, and motivation from them." With this letter, employees hope to make a larger statement on labor standards around the world. "Another reason we must take a stand in solidarity with Chinese workers is that history tells us that multinational companies will pit workers against each other in a race to the bottom as they outsource jobs and take advantage of weak labor standards in the pursuit of profit. We have to come together across national boundaries to ensure just working conditions for everyone around the globe," the letter said. Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: A recent Harvard study found men who wore boxers had about 25% more sperm than those who wore briefs from https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-github-employees-stand-up-censorship-china-996-work-schedule-2019-4
Facebook has finally found a new general counsel — hiring Jennifer Newstead, a top lawyer at the US State Department, to fill the role. The social network's previous general counsel, Colin Stretch, originally announced his intention to leave in July 2018. But as the California company lurched from scandal to scandal, he ended up staying on. He will continue to be with Facebook "through the summer to help with the transition," the company said on Monday. Newstead most recently served as a legal adviser for the US State Department, "overseeing work on all domestic and international legal issues affecting the conduct of US foreign policy," Facebook said in a blog post announcing the news. She joins Facebook at a time of extreme upheaval. Over the last two years the company has faced successive crises, from the Cambridge Analytica scandal to its role spreading hate speech that fueled genocide in Myanmar. Public attitudes towards big tech — and Facebook specifically — have soured accordingly, with increasing calls for stricter legislation or even antitrust measures. "I'm excited to be joining Facebook at an important time and working with such a fantastic team," she said in a statement. "Facebook's products play an important role in societies around the world. I am looking forward to working with the team and outside experts and regulators on a range of legal issues as we seek to uphold our responsibilities and shared values." On Monday, Facebook also announced a new vice president of global communications — John Pinette, the former VP of marketing and communications at Vulcan, who has also worked at Google and Bill Gates' Gates Ventures. He replaced Caryn Marooney, who announced her exit in February 2019. Got a tip? Contact this reporter via encrypted messaging app Signal at +1 (650) 636-6268 using a non-work phone, email at [email protected], Telegram or WeChat at robaeprice, or Twitter DM at @robaeprice. (PR pitches by email only, please.) You can also contact Business Insider securely via SecureDrop. SEE ALSO: Watch Bill Gates tear up the dance floor at a Miami club Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: Facial recognition is almost perfectly accurate — here's why that could be a problem from https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-state-department-lawyer-jennifer-newstead-general-counsel-2019-4
Heather Meeker has seen her share of career changes. She's been a software programmer and a drummer in a rock band. Now, she's very likely the most prominent lawyer working specifically with the world of open source software. She's made a name for herself as one of the top experts in the field, especially in the last year. Companies like MongoDB, Redis Labs, and Confluent turned to Meeker to help them write new, more restrictive licenses that prevent big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Alibaba, and Tencent from using their code freely. She calls 2018 a "watershed year" for these new licenses, which sparked fierce debate in the open source software community. The companies in question argued that while it's completely legal for the big tech companies to take open source code and resell it as a commercial service for profit, it's not especially fair — especially since Amazon, in particular, is seen as not contributing enough code back to the open source communities in return. "[These companies] were concerned about cloud providers free riding on their development efforts without sharing their modifications," Meeker told Business Insider. "They were concerned about sustaining a business and big companies were just using it for free and making a lot of money from making it available for others. They thought, that's a business problem for us." The result, as we've seen over the last several months, is a dramatic industry-wide debate over the future of open source: Some companies have chosen to find new monetization models for open source, while others have doubled down and actually released their entire product line-up as open source code. This all comes as investors flock to open source startups, in the wake of mega-deals like IBM's$34 billion acquisition of Red Hat and Microsoft's $7.5 billion GitHub buy. Besides her licensing work, Meeker is involved in the startup scene as a founding portfolio partner at OSS Capital, a VC firm specifically aimed at commercial open source software startups. She helps these startups with their business and licensing models, helping them solve a problem that's now decades-old: How do you make money with a business built on free, open source software? "I've always understood that you could make money doing open source development, but there were a lot of people who were really skeptical for a long time," Meeker said. "You can make money with an open source business very effectively if you plan it properly." "Flavor of the month"Meeker graduated from Yale in 1978 and spent the early '80s as a programmer. Her degree is in economics, but she learned to program on her own as a child, picking up some basics from her computer scientist father. "I was a nerd. I love technology all my life," Meeker said. "I learned about it at an early age which at the time was very unusual." After five years as a programmer, she says she became bored. At the time, she was developing accounting applications, and felt that she had hit a roadblock in her career. So instead, she pursued what she says was her first passion, and became a musician. She was a drummer and a leader of a band that played blues, college radio rock, and anything people wanted them to play. It was a good time, she says, but it didn't pay the bills. "It's easy to explain why I changed from being a musician to a lawyer," Meeker said. "I wanted health insurance. It was fun, but it was not a career. Compared to other lawyers, I deeply appreciate the practice of law as a career because I've been through something much more difficult. I have loved being a lawyer much more than I expected." She went into law school at UC Berkeley, thinking she would combine law with music and entertainment to become an entertainment lawyer. But soon enough, she realized interesting things were cropping up in technology law, and she changed course. As a lawyer, she started off doing intellectual property and licensing. It wasn't until a couple years later when she discovered the niche field of open source licensing — open source software is, by definition, free for anybody to use and modify, but licensing is a crucial element that controls what's allowed and what isn't, legally speaking. "I set out to learn all I could about it," Meeker said. "In any organization, if you learn a little bit more than the person in the next office, you're the expert. Then they came to me with questions, so I learned more about it. Open source to me is really an interesting thing to focus on." Meeker expected open source to be like a "flavor of the month;" a fad that would eventually disappear. But it never did. 'A clash of ideologies'Today, using open source is the rule in the modern software industry, rather than the exception, Meeker says. The world is embracing open source, and more clients have asked her about it. They wanted to use open source software, but they weren't sure how — and when she first started, most corporate counsels simply advised clients to stay away. "I thought there has to be a better answer than 'no,'" Meeker said. "I thought there has to be a 'yes, if.' That's how I started my practice by trying not to say no. If you want to be a good business lawyer, you have to give your clients more practical and nuanced advice." Generally, her clients want to make sure they're in compliance with open source licenses when they use or modify the code. Some clients want to learn how to set up a foundation to run an open source project of their own, or they may have a dispute over the interpretation of a license. Lately, she's been involved in writing new software licenses. "Most open source licenses don't have any requirements until you distribute the software," Meeker said. "The advent of cloud computing has changed how people deploy software. A lot of people are asking what is that activity that invokes distribution of open source. There is some sort of doctrinal ambiguity about it." These new licenses have been controversial, as free software activists argue that some of the licenses she's helped write go against the definition of open source. Meeker says she cannot comment on her clients directly, but that she only does what she's been asked to do. More broadly, Meeker says, open source startups are only seeking new ways to protect their business, and that change always comes as a shock to any community. "Some software that was previously open source became not open source, so people didn't like that," Meeker said. "There was also a clash of ideologies. You have some people who are free software advocates who object to anyone who uses anything but a free software license, and you have businesses saying we can't sustain a business with a free software license." A problem, she says, is that advocates, developers, and businesses may all have different ideas on what open source should be. For those advocates, open source is an ideal, while developers find it to be an easier way to work together on large software projects. Open source software-based businesses have to balance these principles, while also finding ways to make money. In theory, these "ideologies," can't meet, Meeker says, but in practice, they're combined all the time. For example, most of these companies follow a so-called "open core model," which means that they have a free version of their software, and sell an enterprise version that carries more features for businesses and other power users. Meeker says that it's important to find these moments of balance as a way to grow the overall open source community, commensurate with its outsized impact in the world. "In open source world, there's a lot of philosophical debate that gets very contentious," Meeker said. "While it's important to air ideas and have debate, to people outside who are looking in and are not thinking about open source issues everyday, it's very confusing and concerning to them. I would like to see open source be a big tent instead of a little tent." Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: Watch Google's Stadia video-game-platform event in 5 minutes from https://www.businessinsider.com/lawyer-behind-mongodb-redis-labs-new-licenses-discusses-open-source-2019-3 |
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