Open Source Delivers

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking with Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, for our “Open Source Conversations” series.  In this video, Mike provides a great [...]

Open source governance is a concept that is sometimes misunderstood or forgotten in new open source projects. Good open source governance can help maintain the long-term health of any open [...]

Today we’d like to present the second in our series of patriotically-inspired songs about open source, “This Code Is Your Code, This Code is My Code” (To the tune of [...]

Black Duck Software and North Bridge Venture Partners, working with 451 Research, are conducting the sixth annual Future of Open Source Survey.  I took the survey, but one question caused [...]

On occasion, people working on open source projects will lament how a lot of organizations are using the output of the open source project but not contributing back.  For instance, [...]

Open innovation and industry collaborations are becoming more and more common as companies and industries look to modernize their R&D, optimize resources and even expand their partner ecosystems.  Andrew Aitken [...]

In the last number of years there has been a boom in the creation of new computer languages.  Some might wonder why we need so many new languages but one [...]

2011 was a banner year for the open source community, especially for the Eclipse Foundation, which celebrated its 10th anniversary.  In that vein, I decided to look at 2011 open [...]

As I look around the FOSS ecosystem I’m beginning to see a trend towards something I call “super communities,” or “communities of communities” – essentially, these super communities are vertical [...]

SAP began its journey into the open source ecosystem more than ten years ago with the support of Linux as a reliable OS alternative and the selective use of mature [...]