Open Source Delivers

The results from the 2013 Future of Open Source Survey are in — thanks to everyone who contributed by completing the survey. You can read an overview of the results here, or see the detailed breakdowns in the slides at the end of this post. For me, one of the most interesting nuggets from the [...]

The event that sent the blogosphere ablaze this week came from a very unlikely source – a Disney Channel sitcom. The clip heard round the (open source) world was from a recent episode of the tween show, Shake It Up, where the typecast nerdy character reprimands his friends for the “rookie mistake” of using open [...]

This week’s open source buzz was around the next release of Microsoft Office, which provides support for the Open Document Format (ODF), along with Open XML and editing capabilities for PDFs. The announcement is a big win for open document standards and shows the influence open source has established in the software industry. Read more [...]

It was a great pleasure to be involved in organizing last week’s Open Source Industry Day, sponsored by the NSA. In the spirit of the day, I’ve been sworn to secrecy by the event’s other organizer, the Open Source Software Institute, with regards “how the sausage was made,” but let me just say that the [...]

This week saw a lot of support for open source in governments around the world. The US and the UK held open source focused events and Spain is opening its government software to the public. Here are these stories, and more: On opensource.com, Jason Hibbets took “A Look Inside Code for America.” “Open Source and [...]

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 [...]