Open Source Delivers

Happy Friday! I’m sure most of you are looking forward to the St. Patrick’s Day weekend, so I’ll keep this short and get straight to open source news from the week. Jay Lyman’s latest article on LinuxInsider, “Open Source Coopetition Fueled by LF Growth,” discussed how the Linux Foundation has been able to bring competitors [...]

Click Here to read this blog in Chinese - 点击这里阅读这篇文章在中国 The arrival of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping in the U.S. for trade talks is an opportune time to reflect on the rapid changes happening in China’s technology sector, particularly the rise of free and open source software (FOSS) as a key part of the innovation [...]

While people were gobbling down their turkey dinners and fighting their way through the crowds on Black Friday, open source news didn’t stop…but “The Weekly Wrap Up” did! To make up for last week’s holiday break, I’m serving an extra helping of open sauce source today! Simon Phipps expanded upon Stephen O’Grady’s blog post, arguing [...]

The seasons are changing, the temperature is dropping, and the world of open source continues to turn. Here are your open source news highlights from this past week: Julie Bort’s NetworkWorld article, “Sam Ramji: Cloud makes open source ‘inevitable’ for Microsoft, others,” shares the former Microsoft employee’s views on how the cloud will lead to [...]

Open source software has truly gone mainstream in the past decade, and is now a mainstay of development in software companies, electronics and embedded systems, digital media, and increasingly, in enterprises’ IT applications.  The advances of the past few years have been incredibly rapid, and effective use of open source in software development can indeed [...]