I’ve spent the past three weeks profiling open source policies and adoption projects at the 16 nations competing in EURO 2008. Congratulations are due to Spain, which deservedly won the football championship on Sunday with a 1-0 win over Germany.
Just for fun I thought I’d also declare a 2008 Tour of Europe Open Source [...]

Agenda:
* Mobile OS wars?
* Firefox 3 launch
* Open source drivers for Linux
* Funding update: SpringSource, rPath, Funambol, Neocleus, Optaros
iTunes or direct download (24:19, 5.6MB)

Dana Blankenhorn makes a good suggestion today responding to Jim Whitehurst’s call for more corporations to get involved in the open source development process and avoid software development wastage.
Dana would like to build a “Code Recycling Center” that would enable organizations to offload unwanted code and, presumably, pick up someone else’s unwanted code to create [...]

To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open source policies and deployment projects in the 16 nations that are competing in the tournament.
Perennial underachiever Spain booked its place in its first major final for many years with a convincing win against Russia and helped me [...]

I’ve long followed and blogged about the prominence of Linux in supercomputing and the twice-annual Top500 Supercomputer List. In a relatively short time frame, the open source OS has shot to the top of the Top500 list thanks to its free availability, flexibility, stability, scalability and conduciveness for clustering. Over time, the tools and statistics [...]

Open source tour of Europe: Germany
To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open source policies and deployment projects in the 16 nations that are competing in the tournament.
It doesn’t matter what the competition is, or how well the team has been playing, when it comes [...]

James Dixon has given the thumbs-up to my stretching his Bee Keeper analogy to explain open source development models (which is nice) and in doing so has suggested a new term to help quickly explain the difference between vendor- and community- dominated development projects.
The debate about the difference between the two approaches, and the language [...]

To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open source policies and deployment projects in the 16 nations that are competing in the tournament.
Having recovered from an early defeat to The Netherlands, the Italian team battled their way out of the “group of death” but never [...]

Nokia acquires Symbian, intends to open source mobile OS. SpringSource and rPath obtain new rounds of funding. Linux kernel developers issue statement on closed-source drivers. (and more)

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We had a feeling this might be a big year more for non-desktop Linux, particularly for mobile and embedded uses of the open source OS. This week’s deal by Finnish giant Nokia to pay more than $400m for total ownership of Symbian so it can open the OS has stoked the red hot mobile Linux [...]

To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open source policies and deployment projects in the 16 nations that are competing in the tournament.
For those that followed The Netherlands’ progress through EURO 2008 it should come as no surprise that David Winner’s book Brilliant Orange is [...]

To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open source policies and deployment projects in the 16 nations that are competing in the tournament.
Croatia became the first team to exit EURO 2008 on penalties on Friday night after an extraordinary game against Turkey. Manager Slaven Bilic [...]

Matt Asay is excited about Red Hat’s Spacewalk project to release the code behind its Red Hat Network Satellite product under an open source license (as he should be, he’s been waiting over a year for it). As well as anticipation, Matt’s excitement can also be attributed to the potential for Spacewalk to become the [...]

Neocleus obtains new round of funding. Novell releases OpenSUSE 11. Red Hat acquires open source identity code from Identyx. (and more)

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I’ve been reading The Bee Keeper (also here in PDF), an explanation of the relationship between professional open source software (POSS) vendors and their communities, written by Pentaho’s CTO James Dixon. It is a very elegant explanation of the development/business model employed by the POSS vendors such as MySQL, Pentaho, JBoss and Alfresco.
James uses [...]

To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open source policies and deployment projects in the 16 nations that are competing in the tournament.
After a fine start to the tournament, it looked for a while like Portugal would be among those likely to go all the [...]

To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open source policies and deployment projects in the 16 nations that are competing in the tournament.
Sweden crashed out of EURO 2008 last night a Russia qualified for the knockout stages with a well-deserved 2-0 win. As home to [...]

To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open source policies and deployment projects in the 16 nations that are competing in the tournament.
One of the potential favourites for EURO 2008 was always going to be eliminated from the group stages given France, Italy and The [...]

Funambol obtains new round of funding. Sourcefire appoints new CEO. Mozilla releases Firefox 3. (and more)

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Much of the reaction from FOSS folks to news that Microsoft is joining the Open Source Census centers on concern that Microsoft is out to find open source users and what open source software they’re using. I think that may be exactly right.
However, I don’t think Microsoft has embarked on a SCO-style hunt for open [...]