Open Source Delivers

Click Here to read this blog in Chinese - 点击这里阅读这篇文章在中国 The arrival of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping in the U.S. for trade talks is an opportune time to reflect on the rapid changes happening in China’s technology sector, particularly the rise of free and open source software (FOSS) as a key part of the innovation [...]

This week’s protests by many online sites including Wikipedia, Google, Reddit and others reflect the deep concerns of many Internet properties over two bills pending in the US Congress – the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) in the House, and the “PROTECT IP Act” (PIPA) in the Senate.  Both bills are intended to prevent foreign-based [...]

Open source software has truly gone mainstream in the past decade, and is now a mainstay of development in software companies, electronics and embedded systems, digital media, and increasingly, in enterprises’ IT applications.  The advances of the past few years have been incredibly rapid, and effective use of open source in software development can indeed [...]