Open Source Delivers

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 [...]

GENIVI is the alliance of companies in the automotive supply chain jointly developing a Linux-based in-vehicle infotainment system (IVI) platform. The All Member Meeting (AMM) in Barcelona drew about 400 [...]

Jeff Hammond of Forrester Research talks about the “iron triangle” of software development. “Schedule, features, cost…pick any two,” is the way he describes it. He often brings this up in [...]

At long last, two automotive industry behemoths have mapped out a joint route to serve the growing community of automotive app developers.  This week, Ford Motor Company announced that it [...]

It’s illegal for public entities in Germany to take full advantage of open source software… at least until a (well-intentioned) law is revised. With technology moving faster than legal systems, [...]

About two years ago — more or less for my own amusement — I wrote a piece about weird licenses that had been uncovered by the Black Duck KnowledgeBase team. [...]

Last week I was pleased to moderate a panel on Super Communities in Embedded Systems at the Open World Forum in Paris, after which I addressed a group involved in [...]

OK, this is a joke…sorta. Sitting in the Black Duck booth at LinuxCon, I’ve had three different people mention “rubber duckie debugging” to me. And, as my old product manager [...]

This week as we in the United States enjoy our hot dogs, beers and fireworks, take a moment to think about open source software. Admittedly my case doing so will [...]

It was a great pleasure to be involved in organizing last week’s Open Source Industry Day, sponsored by the NSA. In the spirit of the day, I’ve been sworn to [...]