Open Source Delivers

Recently the space shuttle Enterprise make its final flight, circling the Statue of Liberty while sitting atop a 747. It was a breathtaking sight, and also a reminder that NASA, at least for the time being, is focusing its energies closer to home. One of the next frontiers for NASA is open source. In February [...]

Black Duck Software and North Bridge Venture Partners, working with 451 Research, are conducting the sixth annual Future of Open Source Survey.  I took the survey, but one question caused me concern, considering what I do for a living.  Question 11 states, “OSS forges and foundations have played an important role in the past few [...]

Last week, a first-of-its-kind survey of the European automotive industry revealed that open source is even more pervasive in the development cycle than anticipated. Yet, the necessary management and governance of these open source development processes are lacking. The survey, conducted by BearingPoint and scientifically guided by Dr. Dirk Riehle, head of the Open Source [...]

This year, Black Duck was one of the proud sponsors of the SPLASH (Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity) conference held in Portland, Oregon. SPLASH is “a new ACM SIGPLAN conference dedicated to the art and science of software development.” It originates from OOPSLA, which is one of the most influential conferences on software development. [...]

SAP began its journey into the open source ecosystem more than ten years ago with the support of Linux as a reliable OS alternative and the selective use of mature open source products in our technology platform. Over the years, our engagement in open source projects was significantly increased. We are a major contributor to [...]

Once upon a time, there were three software developers. They enjoyed working together on a software development project and had a good time. One day, the first developer argued that all software must be free and open. The second responded that this was not a good idea since it is only politically motivated and prevents [...]

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 [...]

Over the past few months, I have spent a great amount of time visiting our customers and prospects. During these meetings, I’ve observed a new trend emerging regarding a shift in who’s responsible for managing the organization’s use of FOSS. Historically, many of our customers had a centralized FOSS management group that acted as a [...]