Open Source Delivers

Last week’s Defense Daily Cyber-Security Summit in Washington drew participants from industry and government agencies including the intelligence community (I could tell you, but…), NRC, TSA and the DoD. The panel on which I spoke discussed “open security” and included representatives from HP’s Fortify group and experts from NSA and Homeland Security. The conclusions confirmed [...]

There are great parallels between were I started my career in the hardware world and the way software development has evolved. After last week’s Linux Collaboration Summit where I talked to a lot of people about “software supply chains,” I can’t get them off my mind. The earliest days of digital electronics involved designing at [...]

Last week, a first-of-its-kind survey of the European automotive industry revealed that open source is even more pervasive in the development cycle than anticipated. Yet, the necessary management and governance of these open source development processes are lacking. The survey, conducted by BearingPoint and scientifically guided by Dr. Dirk Riehle, head of the Open Source [...]

In my posting about a DoD meeting I attended concerning open source acquisition, I mention “discussion about a couple of ‘corner cases’ where certain licenses had clauses, which could conflict with federal law.” There were two that came up in the meeting: one having to do with disclosure of confidential information and the other an [...]

Full disclosure: I drive a 2002 Jeep Wrangler with 110,000 miles on it—probably the lowest tech car on the market the year it was built. I’m the only guy I know who rolls his own windows and still has a cassette player* in the dash. So, excuse the naïve wonderment at the new technology and [...]

The U.S. federal government is not always the zippiest, most progressive organization in the world. With that backdrop, it is impressive to see the push being made to remove barriers to the use of open source software. Makes one proud to be an Amuhrcan! (for those who remember Lyndon B.) A couple weeks ago the [...]

I just had the pleasure of speaking at the first annual FOSS Con, Korea. The Korean software industry, self-admittedly, may be slightly behind the west in open source governance, but there is admirable momentum and a clear desire to be world-class in this respect. The event was organized by Charley Tschoy and J.B. Park, attorneys [...]