Open Source Delivers

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 [...]

I recently spoke at the Electronics and Automotive show in Gothenburg, Sweden, the headquarters of Volvo and many other vehicle companies.  While there is strong interest in using open source in cars and trucks – the impact it’s had in other industries like mobile is partly the catalyst (as I asserted in a previous post) [...]

This blog was originally published by SandHill.com It’s exciting to see the evolution of Open Source evident in findings in our Future of Open Source survey over the past five years. Open Source has now moved beyond the tipping point it reached last year in the private sector and now is mainstream in businesses of all [...]

In preparation for an recent webinar regarding best practices of using open source throughout the software lifecycle, I decided to look back on a webinar I presented in 2010, and realized that we have come a long way. Long ago, we stopped questioning if open source should be adapted into mission-critical systems, and rather talked [...]

Open source has always had an on-again, off-again relationship with profit. Increasing open source adoption is tough when patented monopolies like the iPhone are ruling the headlines. As many of you know, I’ve been taking this on for a decade by telling the story of Slater’s Mill. Samuel Slater built a cotton mill in Pawtucket, [...]