Open Source Delivers

I recently talked to two managers of Black Duck, the first company formed to help organizations deal with the licensing issues involved in adopting open source software. With Tim Yeaton, [...]

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 [...]

When your name is Linus and you live in Finland, the social pressure to do something open source related is understandably enormous. And so I have spent the past few [...]

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. [...]

Last week, Black Duck and North Bridge revealed the 2013 Future of Open Source Survey results. For the first time, we announced the results via webinar and I had the [...]

The 2013 Future of Open Source Survey results are in! With a record breaking 822 respondents, the results revealed that the cultural impact of open source software and its influence [...]

Inevitable.  Inextricable.  Imminent. Greeting Netizens.  Since you are reading this blog, you obviously belong to the “Internet of Persons,” a growing global population of 2.5 billion of your fellow human [...]

You’ve just finished developing a great piece of code; you saved your company a bunch of money using open-source components to be faster and efficient. Your colleagues admire you and treat you [...]

Last week I attended POSSCON 2013, the Palmetto Open Source (POSS) Conference in Columbia, SC.  It occurs to me that we are now in the Post Open Source Software (POSS) [...]

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 [...]