TheOpenAnalyst

Everywhere we turn these days, we see evidence of open source developers trading their time and hard work for little more than the hope of benefiting the ever-growing open source community.
While there are many companies world-wide enjoying the benefits of a number of Linux and open source products, there are instances where creating sustainable employment [...]

Microsoft has a long history of rivaling open source, a history that is now seeing the company increasingly warming up to the competitive technology and business model. An illustrative example in this context is the Microsoft Open Source Club, a project that made its debut on the software giant’s repository for open-source projects: CodePlex. According [...]

Continuing its effort to get by with a little help from its friends, Nokia released a new version of its Qt user interface framework and Qt Creator, an integrated development environment (IDE).
The new software is offered under the Lesser GPL for the first time, as well as the main GPL and two commercial licenses dating [...]

An automotive electronics industry alliance announced this week will seek to drive adoption of an open-source car infotainment platform by reducing development cost and time.
The Genivi Alliance unveiled on Monday (March 2) includes auto makers BMW, General Motors and PSA Peugeot Citroen along with parts suppliers Magneti Marelli and Visteon Corp. along with Intel Corp. [...]

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At the Southern California Linux Expo last week, Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon discussed the importance of community building and the role that it plays in accelerating open source software development.
The community-driven development model has proven enormously successful for many large-scale software projects. Communities often emerge organically around technologies that have substantial value, [...]

I am classically the pig at the ham and egg breakfast when it comes to the debate about the open core business model. The chicken at the breakfast is involved. The pig is committed. With that as my admitted bias, it’s time for me to weigh in on the debate that has ensued around the [...]

It may be true that to give is better than to receive, but the opposite principle seems to operate in open source, and it may have serious, negative consequences for the long-term health of the open-source ecosystem.
While it used to be fashionable to criticize Google and the Web companies for skimming the cream off open-source [...]

When it comes to open-source communities, individuals are much better citizens than institutions. The enlightened self-interest that causes individuals to send back bug fixes, contribute ideas for new features and write documentation is much harder to find in institutions. This week, the JargonSpy analyzes why such a gap exists and what can be done about [...]

Over at Forbes.com I spied an article with the intriguing title “The Open-Source Collaboration Gap,” which delves into the whole question of why the vast majority of contributions to open source projects come from individuals and not companies or institutions. Two questions came to my lips: 1) Is that the case? and 2) If so, [...]

The open source community is not quite as free-wheeling as it was a decade ago. Now, industry titans like IBM and even one-time nemesis Microsoft are part of the ecosystem, blurring the lines between open and proprietary models.
Not many years ago, the open source software ecosystem and proprietary models might have been thought of as [...]