Open Source Delivers

There was a lot of open source news this week! HP shared its roadmap for the WebOS release (it will be available by September under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (congrats to the 57% of you who correctly chose Apache in our poll!), the Android App Inventor was open sourced by Google and MIT and [...]

At AOL, we have the not-insignificant task of running a large breadth of projects and products. Using an open source approach for development has been a natural step for us. We’ve found, by embracing open source, we’ve been able to build better products, faster. From the beginning, we’ve taken advantage of the open source stack [...]

Developers spend a lot of time searching for things, including FOSS.  So, a question I always ask executives from companies looking for guidance into how to effectively manage open source is “How do your developers go about finding open source software for inclusion in their projects?”  Usually, the answer varies from the honest “I don’t [...]

Thanksgiving is the most open source of holidays. It supposedly honors a potluck supper of native people and English colonists in Massachusetts, but it’s really just a harvest celebration. And the harvest in this case is personal. It’s about family, about community, about friends and neighbors gathering around food. But it’s about more than food: [...]

As many of you know, the SPDX standard can revolutionize the software supply chain.  Finally, parties in the software supply chain will be able to communicate, in a standard way, the software bill of materials for the packages they receive and potentially redistribute; in other words, they will focus on what’s in the code.  This is [...]

If you’re a software developer, it’s a safe bet that you’re either working on an application for a mobile device or you’ve thought about doing that. Mobile apps are big business – Gartner predicted that there would be almost 18 billion downloads of mobile apps this year alone generating some $15 billion in sales. You’ve [...]