Dana Blankenhorn

Mirror mirror on the wall, what's the most important open source project of them all? Are you asking about economic impact? Then it's probably Linux, or maybe the Apache Web…

Solar technology is exploding, despite what the cynics say. And so is progress. Companies like Solyndra, which looked like a good bet because it claimed a 30% gain in price…

Google is making its Dart system open source. This is very important, not just for open source. Dart is a structured language for web programming. That means you can actually…

Open source has always had an on-again, off-again relationship with profit. Richard Stallman's FOSS idea was anti-capitalist. Eric Raymond's open source attitude is profoundly…

Google Health was doomed from the start. It was based on a legal fallacy and a technical one. The legal fallacy was that you own your health data, and can control it. That may…

Even people inside the open source market tend to underestimate it. They think of it the way they think of the software market. If you're not collecting cash tribute for…