Open Source Delivers

Pixar and Disney were both drawn to open source this week! With the opening of Pixar’s beta program for OpenSubdiv and Walt Disney Animation Studios releasing the source code for [...]

With all the excitement about the amazing feat of technology that sent Curiosity to Mars, we had to wonder: Would any of this be possible without open source?  We know [...]

Between hosting its 2012 Summit and a big acquisition, Red Hat has had a busy week! Jim Whitehurst’s opening keynote presentation at the Red Had Summit took a retrospective look [...]

Recently the space shuttle Enterprise make its final flight, circling the Statue of Liberty while sitting atop a 747. It was a breathtaking sight, and also a reminder that NASA, [...]

From NASA and OpenStack to Facebook and Instagram, open source has dominated technology news this week. Within the last 7 days, there have been multiple open source announcements in government, [...]

This week there was more speculation over the future of WebOS, along with another announcement from NASA about its new open source website. Even the US Government is now giving [...]

Open source doesn’t work the way media narratives would like it to. You can’t see an announcement of something, then measure its immediate success in the market, and draw final [...]

This week internet heavyweights hosted a history-making protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). Sites like Wikipedia, Reddit and Craigslist entered a 24hour [...]

It’s the first week of 2012 and the open source world is starting the year off with a bang! Apache has launched Hadoop 1.0, Mozilla released the MPL 2.0 and [...]

As most of you know, there were two important open source industry events that took place in Paris, France this week. The week started off with the Open Source Think [...]