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 [...]

Why aren’t there more women in software development? Why aren’t more women seeking roles in open source software (OSS)? There are many organizations who are dedicated to the advancement of women in tech, including the not-for-profit Women in Technology group, with the laudable mission of ‘advancing women in technology … by providing advocacy, leadership development, [...]

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 [...]

What does compliance mean to your IT and software development organization?  Most often compliance with external regulations and/or internal controls is treated as a secondary requirement for IT applications, their development and delivery.   It inevitably leads to cost overruns, delays and rework with little to no reuse.   The cost of complying with regulatory reform, such [...]

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, [...]

GENIVI is the alliance of companies in the automotive supply chain jointly developing a Linux-based in-vehicle infotainment system (IVI) platform. The All Member Meeting (AMM) in Barcelona drew about 400 attendees, mostly from Europe, though there were plenty of Americans and Asians as well. Highlights of the conference were previews of BMW’s  future GENIVI-based IVIs, Ford’s [...]

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 [...]