作者: poerwq
2015-01-01 22:51:48
This is a Special Edition of our weekly open source news roundup, as we look back at the top news stories in 2014!
I looked most closely at news in the areas of business, government, and education. There has also been some remarkable news where you would not expect, on how open source is helping to make a difference and the world a better place.
Open source adoption continues in the enterprise
In 2014, we have seen continued growth for both use and adoption of open source software in the enterprise software market. Cloud takes a big part of that obviously, with project likes Docker and OpenStack who have been in the news frequently. But growth wasn't limited to increased use and adoption. We also noticed a lot of big names open sourcing their own solutions. Facebook announced a new branch of MySQL built for scalability, NASA released source code for many software projects, GitHub released the Atom text editor under a MIT license, and Google open sourced an email encryption tool and it's Chrome PDF engine. The biggest news this year when it comes to open sourcing software has been Microsoft with .Net. This list of new open source releases goes on, with companies like LinkedIn, organizations such as DARPA, and more. If this trend continues, we can expect a lot more to be released under an open source license in 2015.
Government commits with open
It wasn't just the open source software market where we saw a positive growth for open source. The public sector has seen growth too, for the use of open source, open data, and open standards. The UK started investigating open office software, made ODF their document standard, and committed to the open contracting data standard. In the United States, the White House hosted a Maker Faire, and also released the open government playbook. France joined the Open Government Partnership, and cities like Geneva and Toulouse, and also Los Angeles move to open source. And companies like GitHub are working to bring government into the 21st century?
Open data and its cultural shift
In the area of open data, we can expect a cultural shift to take place over the next 25 years, according to the founder of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Other big news in open data has included the EU committing