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… 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 serving all major business sectors. In addition, more than 30% of the companies using OSS components have over 40% of their income from OSS related…

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 revolutionary in thought or effect than must have been Thomas Paine’s publication of Common Sense or Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. Eric turned that paper…

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 on a specific problem are able to best solve that problem using the vast resources of open source (230 million source lines of code in…

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 sent the draft infrastructure RFP to the board for review. Worked with the rest of the OSI team on developing the affiliate/membership/somethingship program. Next Week…

This report is a summary of Zak Greant‘s Open Source Initiative activities for the week of March 16th to 22nd, 2008. This Week Alolita, Andrew and I worked on the draft infrastructure requirements for the various online services that the OSI needs and provides, and developed a corresponding RFP. A few instances of lightweight community…

This report is a summary of Zak Greant’s Open Source Initiative activities for the week of March 9th to 15th, 2008. This Week This was my first week of real activity in 2008 (except for my attendance of the March 2008 OSI face-to-face meeting.)