Open Source Delivers

This week’s open source news kicked off with SkySQL announcing its merger with MariaDB and the first batch of Firefox OS phones selling out within hours of going on sale. [...]

This week provided important news for open source in education with Stanford University announcing it will integrate key features from its Class2Go platform into the edX open source learning platform. [...]

Google’s Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge has dominated technology news all week. The tech giant formally declared that it will not sue any users, distributors or developers over certain patents associated [...]

Every year the movers and shakers of the mobile/wireless industry converge upon the industry’s mecca, the Mobile World Congress (MWC).  This year’s ecosystem extravaganza in Barcelona drew 1,500 exhibitors and [...]

The year 2012 had many important FOSS legal developments which reflects the continued increase in FOSS use. During a recent webinar with Black Duck, we noted that FOSS projects have [...]

Congratulations on surviving Turkey Day and the spending frenzy of Black Friday AND Cyber Monday. Your reward is two weeks’ worth of open source news! Just in time for the [...]

This week, the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean source code was released! Read all about this and other recent open source stories: Fabian Scherschel covered the mush anticipated release of Android’s [...]

HP became a platinum member of the Linux Foundation, CloudStack had its first open source code release and LinuxCon Europe took place in Barcelona. Get all the details on these [...]

Online education saw two big open source additions this week. After the creation of Power Searching With Google, the company decided to open source Course Builder, the technology it used [...]

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 [...]