Posts about Open Source Software as of August 21, 2009

I’m reposting this from my facebook page – I’m interested to see if anyone else bites. Inspired by JohnO . Rules : Don’t take too long to think about it. List 15 books you’ve read that will always stick with you. They should be the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Tag as many friends as you want to, including me, because I’m interested in seeing what books my friends choose.

I’ve talked here before about open-source software development, and how it fits into the overall IT landscape.  Probably the largest and best-known open-source project is the Linux operating system .  Linux is a “work-alike clone” of UNIX; it was begun in 1991 by Linus Torvalds while he was a student at the University of Helsinki.  Although a complete Linux OS distribution, like Ubuntu, SuSE, or Debian contains a great deal of software, including the X Window GUI system, utilities and tools from

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Hot on the heels of the news of UNIX’s 40th anniversary comes a Linux Foundation report entitled Who Writes Linux . This report investigates who is contributing to the Linux kernel, and how much: “Since 2005, over 5000 individual developers from nearly 500 different companies have contributed to the kernel. The Linux kernel, thus, has become a common resource developed on a massive scale by companies which are fierce competitors in other areas.” Wow! It bears noting that an analysis like this is only available because Linux is open source software.

The annual  Linux 18th Anniversary Picnic  happened last weekend at Sunnyvale Baylands Park in Sunnyvale, CA. It happens around the weekend following the Linux World Expo (now  Open Source World ) and generally in the same time frame as the anniversary of the  announcement of Linux . Sbay.org , a local non-profit, organizes this social event to get the Free and Open Source community together for a day of fun, and some form of the picnic has happened every year since 2001. This year was great fun.

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The feds are gettin’ open source with it! And by that we mean Open Source for America ( news , site ), a movement to increase the adoption of open source technology in the U.S. Federal Government, is gaining some traction. The Linux Box , a company dedicated to providing customized open source software services, is the latest to join the flux.

I was thinking about the changing tides in software buying trends and how these changes can be such a huge win for education.  Education professionals have always known the value of collaboration and sharing of ideas.  It just took the technology industry a bit of time to catch up.  The good news is it is happening. The days of expensive, proprietary software packages are ending.  The new way of collaborative, standards-based open source technology is here.  And with it comes, more development, more innovation yet for less money and much easier.