OSCON Round-up

Reading some stories recently, it would be easy to conclude that there was some sort of a decline in open source. I'll not pretend to have new and objective data on the subject, but having just returned from OSCON in the USA I have to say rumours of the death of open source are premature....

...OSCON (the O'Reilly Open Source Convention) is not the largest software freedom conference in the world (that's probably FOSDEM, held annually in Brussels, or FISL, held annually in Brazil). But it's an important annual event that draws many of the most influential figures from across the free and open source software spectrum. Just as the term "open source" represents a pragmatic convergence point of software freedom with the dynamics of business, so OSCON serves the centre ground of open source, a meeting point for entrepreneurs and programmers with a vision for business yet a passion for software freedom....