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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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: [...]

The Linux Foundation’s new OpenDaylight Project made its big debut this week. The collaborative project is being supported by a group of leading industry vendors and will provide an open source framework that organizations can build software-defined networking (SDN) products and services on top of. We’ll start this Weekly Wrap Up with some news highlights [...]

This week provided important news for open source in education with Stanford University announcing it will integrate key features from its Class2Go platform into the edX open source learning platform. Another big story came from Google’s decision to transition away from the WebKit project to focus on its new open source rendering engine called Blink. [...]

Google’s Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge has dominated technology news all week. The tech giant formally declared that it will not sue any users, distributors or developers over certain patents associated with the MapReduce data processing model it developed (unless it is first attacked). This was an important step for the company to state its support [...]

Open source in government was the big theme in this week’s open source news. For the first time ever, the UK government formally announced its preference for open source software over proprietary. It was also announced that the Chinese government will work with Ubuntu to develop an open source operating system for the nation’s markets. [...]

Although it may have seemed like the world revolved around the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference this week (technology, music and films are a winning combination), open source stories still managed to gain media traction. Netflix announced a new developer contest for open source cloud improvements and edX released a core element of its online [...]