With recent news of the NSA’s secret PRISM surveillance program, talk of the...
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Open Source Weekly Wrap Up: June 14, 2013
With recent news of the NSA’s secret PRISM surveillance program, talk of the government and its use of technology have dominated the media this week. Discussing a different (more positive) [...]
Read MoreBackward-Compatibility Matters for the Enterprise
As I’ve learned from working with enterprise software for over three decades, one of the mainstays of enterprise software delivered from the most successful enterprise software companies is compatibility. In [...]
Read MoreOpen Source Weekly Wrap Up: June 7, 2013
This week we received more details around Mozilla’s new partnership with Foxconn and IBM’s collaboration with 10gen, as well as why Big Switch is cutting its ties to OpenDaylight. Also, [...]
Read MoreFour Big Software Themes Unified: Mashed Up Thoughts from IBM Innovate
In a conversation with SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustine a little over a year ago, I was impressed at how quickly he rattled off the four themes in software: Cloud, Mobile, [...]
Read MoreSPDX – The PDF of Licensing Compliance Information
Wind River delivers operating system platforms that serve as the nervous system for our customers’ products (e.g., cameras, printers, infotainment systems, aircraft and Mars rovers). We are, in a way, [...]
Read MoreWhy Procurement Professionals Need to Get Open Source Savvy
Procurement’s primary role is to obtain goods and services in response to business needs. When it comes to commercial software, procurement has long played an active role working with development [...]
Read MoreOpen Source Weekly Wrap Up: May 31, 2013
Dell decided against creating an OpenStack public cloud, new mobile data showed open source Android projects vastly outpacing open source iOS projects and there has been speculation about a new [...]
Read MoreHaving “The Talk” with IT: What a General Counsel Needs to Know about Open Source Software
Today, the rapid proliferation of software, particularly open source software (OSS), means it’s time for engineers and general counsels to have a serious talk about open source. Unfortunately, this is [...]
Read MoreOhloh Saves the Day for Ohloh
I tout the benefits of using open source frequently. Still, I was tickled to hear about it when we and a partner recently cashed in on the benefits of a [...]
Read MoreSurvey on the Future of Open Source, and Lessons from the Past
I recently talked to two managers of Black Duck, the first company formed to help organizations deal with the licensing issues involved in adopting open source software. With Tim Yeaton, [...]
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