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Open Source Delivers
The Weekly Wrap Up
It’s the first week of 2012 and the open source world is starting the year off with a bang! Apache has launched Hadoop 1.0, Mozilla released the MPL 2.0 and NASA has started a new website to host their open source projects and encourage discussions around open source. Here is a sample of these stories [...]
The Light of the Open Source World to Come
In most markets it’s clear, as 2012 dawns, that there are usually two strong players. A proprietary company and open source. Windows and open source applications. The iPhone and Android. In each case open source has come up the stack, closer to the point of market control. This year we’ll find that control has been [...]
You Can’t Handle the FOSS!
A Few Good Men? Try a lot of good FOSS! Open Source Delivers finds FOSS promotion everywhere… even in classic films! You can’t handle the FOSS! Son, we live in a world that has applications built with mixed IP, and those application have to be built by men with the best software. Who’s gonna do [...]
The Yearly Wrap Up 2011
With 2012 right around the corner, this Wrap Up takes a look back over the past year in open source news. There have been a lot of milestones in 2011: Linux celebrated its 20th birthday, Eclipse turned 10 and LibreOffice surpassed the 1 year mark. The tech world grieved the loss of a visionary and [...]
“The Night Before Christmas”
(with apologies to Clement Clarke Moore, whose “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” is now in the public domain) ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and in my home office Not a creature was stirring, not even my mouse; The code strings were hung by the mind’s eye with care, In hopes that St. Linus soon would [...]
Open Source Conference 2011 – Views from Amsterdam
I’ve just returned from the Open Source Conference 2011 in Amsterdam, where a huge crowd – well over 600 attendees, from both the OSS industry and other businesses – gathered to hear the latest in open source (OSS) enabled mobile, cloud and social strategies. The largest OSS-related conference I’ve been to so far, sponsored by [...]
The Advent of Super Communities
As I look around the FOSS ecosystem I’m beginning to see a trend towards something I call “super communities,” or “communities of communities” – essentially, these super communities are vertical industry-driven open source communities. The core driver for these groups is the recognition by certain industries that a substantial portion of the software they develop [...]
The Weekly Wrap Up
The biggest news story this week had to be Hewlett-Packard’s decision to open source their webOS operating system. HP’s CEO, Meg Whitman, made the announcement last Friday and the buzz hasn’t died down since. Whether optimistic, pessimistic or cautiously in between, it seems everyone had something to add to the dialog. Therefore, we’ll start this [...]
Occupy Software Development Tools – Not Quite the 99% for Open Source?
“Occupying” spaces is a global phenomenon of 2011. Protesters refer to themselves as movements, not revolutions, and while their goals are quite diverse, their common ground is passion. Open Source echoes this decentralized kind of movement, and its passion. We know that an overwhelming majority of developers use open source, so one might expect that [...]
