There was a lot of open source news this week! HP shared its roadmap for the...
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The Weekly Wrap Up
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 [...]
Open Source and the Cloud: An Interview with Josh McKenty of Piston Cloud
Open source doesn’t work the way media narratives would like it to. You can’t see an announcement of something, then measure its immediate success in the market, and draw final conclusions about an open source effort. It’s not like the iPhone and its seemingly instant market penetration. Few understand this better than Josh McKenty. McKenty, [...]
Why Open Source Communities are Natural for Industry Collaborations
Open innovation and industry collaborations are becoming more and more common as companies and industries look to modernize their R&D, optimize resources and even expand their partner ecosystems. Andrew Aitken recognized this trend in ‘The Advent of Super Communities’ as something we see more and more in open source communities. As Andrew has pointed out, [...]
Apache, By Any Other Name…
My team and I review tens of thousands of projects, their descriptions, their licenses and how they are referenced each year – it is our passion and our job. As part of this work, I recently reviewed a set of data in Maven Central and noticed a plethora of different Apache Licenses… or, more precisely, [...]
The Weekly Wrap Up
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 [...]
Finding the Balance Between Internet Freedom & Intellectual Property in the SOPA/PIPA Debate
This week’s protests by many online sites including Wikipedia, Google, Reddit and others reflect the deep concerns of many Internet properties over two bills pending in the US Congress – the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) in the House, and the “PROTECT IP Act” (PIPA) in the Senate. Both bills are intended to prevent foreign-based [...]
Focus on Developers: The 2011 Open Source Rookies
“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 [...]
OpenSaaS Brings New Freedom to the Cloud
The rise of SaaS, software delivered as a service, is having an enormously disruptive impact on the software industry. Forrester Research estimates that spending on SaaS technology will double by 2013, representing 16% of all software spend. Gartner Research estimates that SaaS software spend is growing at 18%, compounded annually, and will reach $23B by [...]
Support for New Emerging Languages
In the last number of years there has been a boom in the creation of new computer languages. Some might wonder why we need so many new languages but one thing I have found is that software developers can be very passionate about software languages. Another gratifying trend is the ‘almost natural’ step for language [...]
The Weekly Wrap Up
As open source predictions for 2012 continue to be shared, some trends are already starting to emerge. AT&T has launched a new cloud offering, the mobile space saw the release of Tizen’s OS source code and open source methodologies are helping to advance the medical research field. Here are some highlights from these stories and [...]
