Tag Archives: supply chain

In DC, Open Source is Just Software… and That’s Good

It was a great pleasure to be involved in organizing last week’s Open Source Industry Day, sponsored by the NSA. In the spirit of the day, I’ve been sworn to [...]







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Code Analysis Best Practices

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? [...]







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Open Source and Automotive: Crossing the Starting Line

I recently spoke at the Electronics and Automotive show in Gothenburg, Sweden, the headquarters of Volvo and many other vehicle companies.  While there is strong interest in using open source [...]







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Getting the Kinks out of the Software Supply Chain at the Linux Collaboration Summit

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 [...]







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Open Source and Procurement: How to Manage Software in your Supply Chain

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 [...]







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The Advent of Super Communities

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 [...]







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