Author Archives: OSI Policy Team

Last month I was honored to be a keynote speaker at the Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T) annual meeting. Open Source has become a major topic on…

I recently got myself a Flickr Pro account, and have been using Flickr for more of my photos. I find myself more and more annoyed at the rough edges in…

For the past several years I’ve printed various documents at home by sending them to my wife Amy with a request “Please print…”. And after several years we both know…

Many, many programs written in C or C++ use a file called “config.h” which contains #define statement that control the compilation of the program. These programs are also nearly always built using ‘make’.

I claim that these two attributes are in conflict with each other. Or, in layman’s terms, “config.h sucks”. The problem is that when you have multiple options in config.h, every file which may be compiled differently depending on the values defined therein must be recompiled whenever config.h changes.

The Open Source Initiative ran the first Open Source Awards, but when we dropped them, Google and O’Reilly picked up the idea (yay!). Nominations are currently open, but close in…

We’re realizing is that Open Source is more than just free software. Free software is like free rocks. You need rocks, but rocks aren’t enough to build a house. You…

The subtitle of this Computer World report quotes Nicholas Negroponte as saying that insitence on Open Source scares people away. Boggle. I believe that without open source, the fundamental purpose…

This report is a summary of Zak Greant‘s Open Source Initiative activities for the weeks of March 30th to April 5th and April 6th to 12th, 2008. These Weeks Light…

… based on an extensive screening of software companies, with more than 700 responses. Analysis shows that close to 50% of the software industry integrate OSS components into vertical solutions…

In 1997, Eric Raymond first presented The Cathedral and the Bazaar at Linux Kongress. I was not there, but I read the paper, and it struck me as no less…

In my day job at Red Hat I see daily examples of open source best practices, be it at the architecture, infrastructure, or application level. I see how individuals focused…

This report is a summary of Zak Greant‘s Open Source Initiative activities for the week of March 23rd to 29th, 2008. This Week Alolita Sharma, Andrew C. Oliver and I…