By Ben Su ( December 15, 2021, 1:10 PM EST) -- From IT startups to publicly traded software companies, open-source software (OSS) has become the basic building block for modern-day software engineering. At virtually no cost of acquisition, software developers can leverage existing OSS codes (e.g., OSS libraries and algorithms) and apply them to accelerate product development cycle, significantly reducing engineering timeline and cost. Especially in artificial intelligence (AI) neural network-driven software applications, companies no longer need to solve complex R&D tasks like natural language processing, as sophisticated AI language models like Google BERT are readily available for commercial use under Apache License 2.0....