Andrea Bovens's guest appearances

Andrea Bovens

The Acquia Podcast

Chris Porter

Lukas Smith

Paul Johnson

Amy Parker

Ryan Weaver

Sam Lerner

John Doyle

Michael Cooper

Gregg Marshall

Ambrosia Vertesi

Kevin Miller

Dan Callahan

Scott Reeves

Nick Veenhof

Holly Ross

OwlTail

Bruce Lawson

I also thought of calling this episode of our Four Freedoms podcast series "The interesting journey of a company producing proprietary software being involved in an open source project," ... not so catchy. Or maybe "Why business and openness do not have to be enemies." The point is that on February 12, 2013,  Opera Software announced that it was dropping its own, proprietary rendering engine in favour of the open source WebKit engine. I wanted to know more about that decision and the consequences going forward. What I discovered is a company with a commitment to open standards, knowledge sharing, liberal licensing, and a long-term history of actions to back those claims up. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/73-opera-proprietary-software-company-doing-open-source-right

<p>I also thought of calling this episode of our Four Freedoms podcast series "The interesting journey of a company producing proprietary software being involved in an open source project," ... not so catchy. Or maybe "Why business and openness do not have to be enemies." The point is that on February 12, 2013, <a href="http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/300-million-users-and-move-to-webkit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Opera Software announced</a> that it was dropping its own, proprietary rendering engine in favour of the open source <a href="http://www.webkit.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WebKit engine</a>. I wanted to know more about that decision and the consequences going forward. What I discovered is a company with a commitment to open standards, knowledge sharing, liberal licensing, and a long-term history of actions to back those claims up.</p> <p>Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: <a href="https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/73-opera-proprietary-software-company-doing-open-source-right" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/73-opera-proprietary-software-company-doing-open-source-right</a></p>

73: Meet Bruce Lawson and Andrea Bovens from Opera