Open Source Delivers

Last week’s Defense Daily Cyber-Security Summit in Washington drew participants from industry and government agencies including the intelligence community (I could tell you, but…), NRC, TSA and the DoD. The panel on which I spoke discussed “open security” and included representatives from HP’s Fortify group and experts from NSA and Homeland Security. The conclusions confirmed [...]

From NASA and OpenStack to Facebook and Instagram, open source has dominated technology news this week. Within the last 7 days, there have been multiple open source announcements in government, cloud, social media and auto…and you’re not going to miss any of it! Scott Merrill reported on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s announcement of its [...]

In my posting about a DoD meeting I attended concerning open source acquisition, I mention “discussion about a couple of ‘corner cases’ where certain licenses had clauses, which could conflict with federal law.” There were two that came up in the meeting: one having to do with disclosure of confidential information and the other an [...]

The big stories this week were the reunion of Android with Linux in the new kernel 3.3 release and the news of the Icelandic public sector’s year long program to move all its software from proprietary to open source. Read about these stories and more: Stephen Shankland reported on the inclusion of Android code in [...]

This week there was more speculation over the future of WebOS, along with another announcement from NASA about its new open source website. Even the US Government is now giving out prizes for open source app development! Read about those stories and more: Brandon Bailey wrote and in depth article about the possible medical future [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Open source in government seemed to dominate the OSS dialog this week. In case you haven’t heard, the White House has made the Data.gov source code available on GitHub and is working with the Indian government to complete the “Data.gov-in-a-box”, Open Government Platform for other countries to utilize. While this is big news for potential [...]

I must begin this wrap up with sad news of the loss of Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the co-founder of the Diaspora, who died this week at the age of only 22. Diaspora was Black Duck’s #1 Open Source Rookie of 2010 and we’d all like to express our condolences to the Zhitomirskiy family and the bright, [...]