# Linux Action News 100

URL: /show/linux-action-news/100/
> Chef goes 100% open source, and this recipe has an old twist, plus the real cost of abandoning the VMware lawsuit.

- Show: [Linux Action News](/show/linux-action-news/)
- Episode: 100
- Date: 2019-04-07
- Hosts: chris
- Duration: 00:27:07
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dec90738-e640-45e5-b375-4573052f4bf4/a005eb57-a29c-45fc-acf3-238418b27ec1.mp3
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/WQg45Dpr7Aw





### Episode Links

  * [Chef goes 100% open source](https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/02/chef-goes-100-open-source/ "Chef goes 100% open source") — “In the open core model, you’re saying that the value is in this proprietary sliver. The part you pay me for is this sliver of its value. And I think that’s incorrect,” he said. “I think, in fact, the value was always in the totality of the product.”
  * [Chef’s Different Recipe](https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/04/02/chefs-different-recipe/ "Chef’s Different Recipe")
  * [Linux developer abandons VMware lawsuit](https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-developer-abandons-vmware-lawsuit/ "Linux developer abandons VMware lawsuit") — For over 10 years, VMware was accused of illegally using Linux code in its VMware ESX bare-metal virtual machine hypervisor. After a German court dismissed the case, the Linux programmer behind the lawsuit has called it a day.
  * [Court not happy case was initiated for ideological reasons](https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Linux-Entwickler-gegen-VMware-OLG-Hamburg-lehnt-Klage-ab-4324066.html "Court not happy case was initiated for ideological reasons") — Since Hellwig's complaint was evidently motivated by idealistic motives - as the judge himself noted at the trial.
  * [Conservancy statement](https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/apr/02/vmware-no-appeal/ "Conservancy statement")
  * [New way to run Android apps on Linux](https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2019/04/01/running-android-next-to-wayland/ "New way to run Android apps on Linux") — It's now possible to run Android applications in the same graphical environment as regular Wayland Linux applications with full 3D acceleration. 
  * [Sailfish and Mer merging](https://blog.jolla.com/message-in-a-bottle/ "Sailfish and Mer merging") — Mer has served it’s purpose and can retire.
  * [UBports Foundation finally created](https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/it-s-official-the-ubports-foundation-is-ready-for-launch-215 "UBports Foundation finally created") — We are very proud and excited to announce that we are about to be granted the status of an official foundation. 
  * [EU launches blockchain association](https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/03/eu-launches-blockchain-association-to-accelerate-distributed-ledger-technology-adoption/ "EU launches blockchain association") — The International Association of Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA) grew out of months of forums and roundtables held by the commission to create a strategy around the emerging technology.