Open Source Delivers

This week, Black Duck announced the 2012 Open Source Rookies of the Year, recognizing the top new open source projects from this past year. Open Source Delivers blogger Dave Gruber wrote a post on the trends that were identified in the Rookies list. Before we get to recent news from the rest of the open [...]

Sifting through the thousands of new open source projects that start each year is a refreshing, insightful process. As we completed our Rookies analysis of the new projects that hit the scene in 2012, I had a wonderful sense of the kind of impact that open source is making on the world in so many [...]

Nowadays it seems everyone is engaged in social activities through Facebook, Google+, Twitter and an onslaught of other social offerings. Most of these offerings are proprietary, managed by large commercial entities. And while they often propagate ‘open’ standards, integrating with or even building your own software environment on top of these is a daunting and often [...]

It was another week filled with open source announcements. HP, Hortonworks and Ford all made news with new open source offerings. Here are this week’s highlights: Ravi Mandalia wrote about the UK Cabinet Office Director of ICT Futures’s recent supporting statements about open source software, “Liam Maxwell: “Open Source is the Future Model for Delivering [...]

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 [...]

This week internet heavyweights hosted a history-making protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). Sites like Wikipedia, Reddit and Craigslist entered a 24hour internet blackout on January 18th, posting black screens containing information about the implications of the controversial anti-piracy bills and links to where people could contact [...]

“Over time, we’ll get more data, more powerful computers, and better predictive algorithms. We’ll also do better at helping group-level (as opposed to individual) decision making, since many organizations require consensus for important decisions. This means that the ‘market share’ of computer automated or mediated decisions should go up, and intuition’s market share should go [...]