Open Source Delivers

A Few Good Men?  Try a lot of good FOSS!  Open Source Delivers finds FOSS promotion everywhere… even in classic films! You can’t handle the FOSS! Son, we live in a world that has applications built with mixed IP, and those application have to be built by men with the best software. Who’s gonna do [...]

With 2012 right around the corner, this Wrap Up takes a look back over the past year in open source news. There have been a lot of milestones in 2011: Linux celebrated its 20th birthday, Eclipse turned 10 and LibreOffice surpassed the 1 year mark. The tech world grieved the loss of a visionary and [...]

(with apologies to Clement Clarke Moore, whose “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” is now in the public domain) ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and in my home office Not a creature was stirring, not even my mouse; The code strings were hung by the mind’s eye with care, In hopes that St. Linus soon would [...]

I’ve just returned from the Open Source Conference 2011 in Amsterdam, where a huge crowd – well over 600 attendees, from both the OSS industry and other businesses – gathered to hear the latest in open source (OSS) enabled mobile, cloud and social strategies. The largest OSS-related conference I’ve been to so far, sponsored by [...]

As I look around the FOSS ecosystem I’m beginning to see a trend towards something I call “super communities,” or “communities of communities” – essentially, these super communities are vertical industry-driven open source communities. The core driver for these groups is the recognition by certain industries that a substantial portion of the software they develop [...]

The biggest news story this week had to be Hewlett-Packard’s decision to open source their webOS operating system. HP’s CEO, Meg Whitman, made the announcement last Friday and the buzz hasn’t died down since. Whether optimistic, pessimistic or cautiously in between, it seems everyone had something to add to the dialog. Therefore, we’ll start this [...]

“Occupying” spaces is a global phenomenon of 2011. Protesters refer to themselves as movements, not revolutions, and while their goals are quite diverse, their common ground is passion. Open Source echoes this decentralized kind of movement, and its passion. We know that an overwhelming majority of developers use open source, so one might expect that [...]

Picture this: You’re the developer who has improved the efficiency of your application development team at a large bank.  Your boss loves you, you’re expecting a nice bonus and, with less than two weeks to a holiday break, perhaps you’re looking forward to some “figgy pudding” or whatever it is you enjoy. What could possibly [...]

Open source in government seemed to dominate the OSS dialog this week. In case you haven’t heard, the White House has made the Data.gov source code available on GitHub and is working with the Indian government to complete the “Data.gov-in-a-box”, Open Government Platform for other countries to utilize. While this is big news for potential [...]