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European Interoperability Framework supports openness
Recognizing the role of open source and open standards in innovation, the European Commission released yesterday its long-awaited “European Interoperability Framework.” This official policy (the...
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U.S. Administration's 'Technology Neutrality' Announcement Welcome News
Score another landmark for the mainstreaming of open source. On January 7, the Administration issued a succinct, clear message to Executive Branch IT leaders: Don't discriminate between proprietary...
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Celebrate Document Freedom Day!
Today marks the annual observance of Document Freedom Day (DFD), a global day for document liberation. On this important occasion, let's all recognize that progress has been made to promote and use...
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Document Freedom Day: UK releases Government ICT Strategy in .odt
Wow! What a great Document Freedom Day! Today, the United Kingdom's CabinetOffice released is official Government ICT Strategy – not only in .pdf and .doc, but also in .odt! It's a more detailed,...
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The IT Reform Agenda: 'Cloud-first' and mainstreaming of open source
I attended the latest briefing at the White House complex, where Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief Performance Officer Jeff Zients, and other Executive Branch officials reported on...
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Open source and the 'Cloud'
As policy discussions on the 'Cloud' unfold in Washington, Brussels and around the world, last week's Red Hat Summit in Boston, where more than 2,500 developers and software leaders gathered from...
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Governments take note: Open Document Format is updated and improved!
In an important development last week, Open Document Format (ODF) version 1.2 was adopted as an OASIS standard after four years of hard work. And it was approved with a strong 'yes' vote and no...
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The U.S. Government promotes open innovation--Is it now mainstream?
"We live in an open source world." For many readers of opensource.com, those words are probably a part of your daily life; in all likelihood, you take them for granted. They reflect the commonality...
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Department of Commerce app challenge--an interview with Mike Kruger
Last month, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) announced a "Commerce Business Apps Challenge" to developers to look for innovative ways to utilize the Department’s and other publicly available...
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HuffPost releases Pollster, an open source API for managing election polling,...
In case you haven't noticed, it's an election year in the United States. And with the election in full swing, there is a plethora of data, from a myriad of sources, about what is on the mind of the...
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The latest White House moves on open source: Connecting citizen developers to...
This week, in the latest step to connect citizen developers with the tools they need to unlock government data, the White House updated their website to include a developers resources section. More...
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Five major standards organizations speak out
What's going on at the International Telecommunications Union? Earlier this month, the IEEE, Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Society, and World Wide...
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NASA achieves data goals for Mars rover with open source software
Since the landing of NASA’s rover, Curiosity, on Mars on August 6, 2012 (Universal Earth Time -- evening of August 5, Pacific Time), I have been following the incredible wealth of images that have...
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UK Government finalizes Open Standards Principles: The Bigger Picture
Last week, the UK Cabinet Office released its Open Standards Principles: For software interoperability, data and document formats in government IT specifications. It became effective November 1, 2012,...
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OASIS adopts AMQPv1: An open standard for smart grid and cloud
For governments looking for cutting edge, open source messaging solutions, the recent action by the OASIS standards consortium to approve the Advanced Message Queueing Protocol (AMQP) Version 1.0 is a...
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EU Commissioner Kroes articulates benefits of open source and open standards
In a well done video, released in mid-December, Neelie Kroes, the European Commission’s Vice President for the Digital Agenda, articulates the benefits of open source software and open standards.Read...
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Key House committee looks at abusive patent litigation
In the latest evidence of the growing recognition that our patent system needs reform, last week the House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet held an informative and...
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Congress looking to act on patent assertion entities
Congress is beginning to focus on the abusive use of patents by Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) with new legislative proposals. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and a wide variety of...
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The FTC roadmap on patent litigation aggressors
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appears to be ramping up for an investigation of Patent Assertion Entity (PAE) practices.In a noteworthy, welcome development, FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez recently...
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QUIZ: What do EFF, movie studios, automobiles, and your local grocery store...
If you guessed that they are all big in California—well, you're kinda right.But the more significant answer is that they are part of a growing broad array of the US economy that have united together to...
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