Open Source Delivers

The Linux Foundation’s new OpenDaylight Project made its big debut this week. The collaborative project is being supported by a group of leading industry vendors and will provide an open source framework that organizations can build software-defined networking (SDN) products and services on top of. We’ll start this Weekly Wrap Up with some news highlights [...]

This week provided important news for open source in education with Stanford University announcing it will integrate key features from its Class2Go platform into the edX open source learning platform. Another big story came from Google’s decision to transition away from the WebKit project to focus on its new open source rendering engine called Blink. [...]

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 Mobile World Congress took place this week and quickly became the platform for a number of open source mobile announcements. Mozilla shared the many mobile partners that have committed to support its FireFox OS and LG acquired HP’s webOS. And that was only the beginning of the week! So much open source news, so little [...]

Mozilla announced new developer preview phones for its upcoming Firefox mobile OS, while Canonical started recruiting the developer community in the creation of its core Ubuntu Phone apps. Here is the latest on new open source mobile operating systems and other highlights from the OSS world: Mozilla’s new preview phones for developers were covered in [...]

Following the success of its first open source font, this week Adobe released a second open source typeface called Source Code Pro. The new web font was announced at the Create the Web event, along with the new Edge Tools and Services for developers. The OpenStack Foundation also had a big release with the highly [...]

Between hosting its 2012 Summit and a big acquisition, Red Hat has had a busy week! Jim Whitehurst’s opening keynote presentation at the Red Had Summit took a retrospective look at revolutionizing innovations, inspiring numerous blogs and articles. The billion dollar open source company also made news when it announced it was buying the open [...]

The Mobile World Congress took over the tech world this week, with many new product demonstrations and partnership announcements. Mozilla shared the news of its partnership with Telefónica to manufacture smartphones with the open source Boot 2 Gecko web operating system and Canonical demoed its new Ubuntu TV. But those weren’t the only open source [...]

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 [...]

This year, 2011, was one of the most active years in legal developments in FOSS. This activity reflects the increase in FOSS use: Laura Wurster of Gartner, noted in the Harvard Business Review blog that open source has hit a “strategic tipping point” this year with companies increasingly focused on using “open source” software for [...]