Open Source Delivers

The New Yorker magazine released its new Strongbox open source anonymous tip tool this week, receiving a good deal of media attention. Most of the headlines highlighted the fact that DeadDrop, the open source privacy project that Strongbox is based on, was the last project the late web activist Aaron Swartz worked on. The story [...]

News that Facebook’s Open Compute Project will soon be tackling open designs for network switches was the big open source topic of the week.  The announcement by Facebook’s Frank Frankovsy at Interop sparked a lot of discussion around the project that aims be OS agnostic. Get more on this and other open source news from [...]

I recently returned from a multi-city trip in Europe for a seminar series Black Duck was delivering with local partners on best practices for optimizing open source software (OSS) use in development (with the appropriate level of visibility and control needed to ensure compliance, of course).  Just before I left, Black Duck had announced, along [...]

The Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) took place this week and generated a lot of open source news, with the CEO of Red Hat’s impactful opening keynote presentation receiving the most attention. This week also provided an update to the Linux Kernel, Eucalyptus support for Netflix open source tools and a gift for hackers awaiting [...]

This blog was originally posted on SandHill.com. Editor’s note: My immediate reaction when I reviewed the findings of the recent 2013 Future of Open Source Survey was surprise at the high degree of change that has occurred in the industry since the 2012 survey. The survey, hosted by North Bridge Venture Partners together with Black Duck Software, [...]

When your name is Linus and you live in Finland, the social pressure to do something open source related is understandably enormous. And so I have spent the past few years researching code forking. I recently had the opportunity to interview Michael ”Monty” Widenius to get “the MariaDB story” for my PhD. Going in, I [...]

This week’s open source news kicked off with SkySQL announcing its merger with MariaDB and the first batch of Firefox OS phones selling out within hours of going on sale. Catch up on these stories and find out what other open source stories were circulating this week: Ingrid Lunden reported on the merger between open [...]

Last week, Black Duck and North Bridge revealed the 2013 Future of Open Source Survey results. For the first time, we announced the results via webinar and I had the great pleasure of taking part with fellow industry experts from North Bridge, Forrester, Thomson Reuters, Hortonworks and Acquia. Following the webinar, I had a chance [...]

The results from the 2013 Future of Open Source Survey are in — thanks to everyone who contributed by completing the survey. You can read an overview of the results here, or see the detailed breakdowns in the slides at the end of this post. For me, one of the most interesting nuggets from the [...]

The 2013 Future of Open Source Survey results are in! With a record breaking 822 respondents, the results revealed that the cultural impact of open source software and its influence on everything from innovation, to collaboration among competitors, to hiring practices, is revolutionizing the way organizations work and do business. Check out the Open Revolutions: [...]