The event that sent the blogosphere ablaze this week came from a very unlikely source – a Disney Channel sitcom. The clip heard round the (open source) world was from a recent episode of the tween show, Shake It Up, where the typecast nerdy character reprimands his friends for the “rookie mistake” of using open source code, implying that it caused a virus. Needless to say, this open source dis got people talking. Still, it wasn’t the only story worth discussing this week!
- One of the first stories on Disney’s insult to open source came from Alex Williams in the TechCrunch article, “Disney Adds A Bit Of Nonsensical Anti-Open Source FUD To Kid’s Sitcom.”
- Klint Finley reported on funding received by Sqrrl, the company created by the National Security Agency’s to provide commercial support for the open source Accumulo project, in the Wired article, “NSA’s Open Source Spin-Off Lands $2 Million in Funding.”
- Wired also published, “Google’s Mind-Blowing Big-Data Tool Grows Open Source Twin,” by Cade Metz on the launch of Drill, the MapR data-analysis tool built for quick and effective mining of Hadoop data.
- On ZDNet, Kevin Kwang highlighted the top five companies to watch in open source: “5 OSS Up-and-Comers to Watch.”
- Rackspace published a new cloud infographic on CloudTweaks, demonstrating the “Stability, Scalability and Reliability of Open-Source Software”: “Cloud Infographic: Drivers Of Open Source Adoption.”
- On The White House Blog, Macon Philips announced that the U.S. government would be publishing the source code for its online petition system: “We the Coders: Open-Sourcing We the People, the White House’s Online Petitions System.”
Here on OSDelivers, we often post polls, asking our readers’ opinions on various open source topics and trends. This week, opensource.com posted a poll asking, “Should all taxpayer-funded software developed for governments be licensed as open source by default?” Share your vote and let us know your thoughts.
