Open Source Delivers

Last week I attended the LinuxCon Japan conference, which was held in Yokohama – one of the great port cities of the world! There’s a terrific Ferris wheel near the [...]

You know that analyzing your code for known open source is important. But now what? What’s the best way to integrate open source code analysis into your software development lifecycle? [...]

There are great parallels between were I started my career in the hardware world and the way software development has evolved. After last week’s Linux Collaboration Summit where I talked [...]

The concept of super communities and industries organizing together to collaboratively solve problems is highly relevant to HP and our most important community – our customers. HP works closely – [...]

When Olliance first developed the Open Source Maturity model, we originally had seven disciplines that were primarily internally focused.  However, it quickly became apparent that we needed to expand the [...]

My team and I review tens of thousands of projects, their descriptions, their licenses and how they are referenced each year – it is our passion and our job.  As [...]

This year, 2011, was one of the most active years in legal developments in FOSS. This activity reflects the increase in FOSS use: Laura Wurster of Gartner, noted in the [...]

Over the last few months, I’ve had the opportunity to participate in various Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) standard working groups. Most of my time has been dedicated to the [...]

As many of you know, the SPDX standard can revolutionize the software supply chain.  Finally, parties in the software supply chain will be able to communicate, in a standard way, the [...]