Open Source Delivers

We recently hosted a customer advisory board (CAB) meeting in Paris with many of our European customers to discuss best practices, trends and the future of FOSS in their organizations. Some of their observations shed interesting light on FOSS best practices, for example: Automation Capabilities We had an in-depth discussion about best practices for rolling [...]

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: [...]

I just had the pleasure of speaking at the first annual FOSS Con, Korea. The Korean software industry, self-admittedly, may be slightly behind the west in open source governance, but there is admirable momentum and a clear desire to be world-class in this respect. The event was organized by Charley Tschoy and J.B. Park, attorneys [...]

I must begin this wrap up with sad news of the loss of Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the co-founder of the Diaspora, who died this week at the age of only 22. Diaspora was Black Duck’s #1 Open Source Rookie of 2010 and we’d all like to express our condolences to the Zhitomirskiy family and the bright, [...]

Black Duck was a Platinum Sponsor at AnDevCon II this week. At our booth, we were giving away ducks and the opportunity to win a $100 Amazon gift card!  Attendees have been submitting creative photos of the Black Duck for our Duck Contest and I’ll be announcing the winner….at the end of this wrap up! [...]

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. [...]

What’s all this I hear about Code Paralysis? What’s so important about code paralysis! We don’t need more code paralysis! Software freezes enough as it is! What’s that? You said Open Source Analysis? Why should I open source my analysis? That’s personal! Code analysis? Oh, you mean I should analyze my code to FIND known [...]

Education, Government and Mobile…oh my! Open Source continues to innovate across multiple industries. This week I’ve even included a roundup within the roundup! Now, onto your open source news: The ZDNet article by Christopher Dawson, “EDUCAUSE takeaway #2: Open source is alive and well,” explains why the Linux desktop won’t take off among tech savvy [...]