Open Source Delivers

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 [...]

Every year the movers and shakers of the mobile/wireless industry converge upon the industry’s mecca, the Mobile World Congress (MWC).  This year’s ecosystem extravaganza in Barcelona drew 1,500 exhibitors and over 72,000 visitors.  Attendees spanned the gadget gamut, from mobile chipset vendors and software platform suppliers to device manufacturers and network operators, from app developers, [...]

The year 2012 had many important FOSS legal developments which reflects the continued increase in FOSS use. During a recent webinar with Black Duck, we noted that FOSS projects have increased from 600,000 in 2010 to 900,000 by December 2012. In addition, a Dr. Dobbs’ survey in the third quarter of 2012 stated that more [...]

This week, the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean source code was released! Read all about this and other recent open source stories: Fabian Scherschel covered the mush anticipated release of Android’s Jelly Bean operating system in The H article, “Google open sources Android 4.2.” On TechCrunch, Alex Williams shared Netflix’s cool, branded open source project’s page [...]

HP became a platinum member of the Linux Foundation, CloudStack had its first open source code release and LinuxCon Europe took place in Barcelona. Get all the details on these stories and more: “HP Bets Big on Linux” was Katherine Noyes’s PCWorld article on HP’s new Linux Foundation platinum membership. Linus Torvald’s LinuxCon Europe panel [...]

Each day, when I get in my car and drive to work I think about the software business I’m involved in. Yet it seldom occurs to me that there are over 1 million lines of code running in the car that I’m riding in -And it just works! No bugs, log files, no visible defects [...]

The Best of Open Source Software Awards (or Bossies, if you prefer) announced its winners this week. With seven categories and over a hundred products recognized, it is clearer than ever that open source is playing a major role in contributing to technology innovation across industries and categories. Take a look at a few of [...]

Pixar and Disney were both drawn to open source this week! With the opening of Pixar’s beta program for OpenSubdiv and Walt Disney Animation Studios releasing the source code for the Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) Explorer, artists and film producers have new tools to help elevate their animations.  These stories and more are featured [...]

This week, the center of the open source universe was Portland, OR, where the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) was held. With so many industry influencers as speakers, sponsors and attendees, the majority of this week’s stories came out of OSCON. So whether you were busy enjoying all the OSCON festivities or unable to attend, [...]

A lot happened in open source, since our break last week; Google released the source code for Jelly Bean 4.1, the open source gaming console, Ouya, became the fastest growing Kickstarter campaign and the White House launched extensions of its Open Data Initiatives program. Let’s get right to the highlights: David Meyer covered the big [...]