Without a doubt, the biggest story in open source this week was the news that Red Hat would be the first $1 billion open source company. This announcement sparked a media fire and had all the tech bloggers weighing in on what Red Hat’s success means for open source software. Red Hat’s CEO, Jim Whitehurst, said this achievement was “a statement about open source, and the relative ubiquity of open source.” Read about how Red Hat and others are helping expand the pervasiveness of open source:
- “Red Hat Becomes Open Source’s First $1 Billion Baby” by Robert McMillan on Wired Enterprise, was one of the first stories about Red Hat’s milestone.
- Dian Schaffhauser published an interview with the Blackboard Learn President and the Moodlerooms Chairman and CEO about the recent Blackboard acquisition in THEJournal article, “Blackboard Speaks Out on Open Source Move.”
- Simon Phipps celebrated Document Freedom Day with his blog on opensource.com, “Document Freedom Day: Promoting Document Freedom.”
- On OStatic, Sam Dean blogged about the ever increasing use of open source software in robotics: “Open Source Robotics Platforms are Flourishing–As They Should.”
- TMCNet’s Nick Ruble wrote an article about the recent study* on the use of open source in the automotive industry: “Automotive Industry Must Improve Compliance of Open Source Software.”
Have you taken the Future of Open Source Survey yet?
*Black Duck sponsored this study.
