Open Source Delivers

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, [...]

Talend, a licensor of open source enterprise software, has recently received a ruling from the U.S. Customs Service corroborating that its software complies with the Trade Agreements Act 0f 1979 [...]

After the destruction done to the U.S. Atlantic coast by Hurricane Sandy, open data and croudsourcing are helping to provide disaster relief. The hurricane (now being referred to as “Frankenstorm”) [...]

Last week I was fortunate to both attend and present at OSEHRA’s first annual Open Source EHR Summit & Workshop . There were some great presentations on the status of OSEHRA [...]

The use of open source software in governments was a popular topic of conversation for bloggers and tech journalists this week. With recent events like the Red Hat Government Symposium, [...]

What do Bosch, NYSE Technologies and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have in common? Not only are they all key examples of current and influential open source trends, they’re also [...]

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 [...]

Last week’s Defense Daily Cyber-Security Summit in Washington drew participants from industry and government agencies including the intelligence community (I could tell you, but…), NRC, TSA and the DoD. The [...]

In my posting about a DoD meeting I attended concerning open source acquisition, I mention “discussion about a couple of ‘corner cases’ where certain licenses had clauses, which could conflict [...]

The U.S. federal government is not always the zippiest, most progressive organization in the world. With that backdrop, it is impressive to see the push being made to remove barriers [...]