Mark Bohannon

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Mark Bohannon | Mark Bohannon is Vice President of Global Public Policy and Government Affairs at Red Hat. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President, Public Policy and General Counsel at the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal U.S. trade association for the software and digital content industry. Prior to his work at SIIA, he was a senior official at the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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Encryption back doors: Is there more to this debate?

"I think that it's a mistake to require companies that are making hardware and software to build a duplicate key or a back door even if you hedge it with the notion that there…

India adopts a comprehensive open source policy

The Government of India (GOI) has adopted a comprehensive and supportive open source policy. It builds on their earlier efforts to adopt open standards for procurement. As we…

Is Occupy Wall St. really an "open source protest?"

The encryption 'access' debate heats up

Even as the US government bids adieu to Clipper Chip, an infamous episode that influenced the cryptography debate for years, there is renewed focus in a number of quarters…

Has the Supreme Court made patent reform legislation unnecessary?

As Congress gears up again to seriously consider patent litigation abuse—starting with the introduction of H.R. 9 ( the "Innovation Act" ) last month—opponents of reform are…

The US government bids adieu to Clipper Chip

Some lessons relevant for today. In a short notice published last month, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) announced it was retiring a number of…

U.S. Digital Services and Playbook: "Default to Open"

About this time last year, I laid out some trends I saw for the coming year in government take up of open source software. Looking back now, it appears those trends are not…

Authored Comments

markbohannon

5 Nov 2012

NASA achieves data goals for Mars rover with open source software

Thanks for your eagle eye ! Yes, MySQL appears to be definitely included in the graphic. What is not clear is whether it is internal to the implementation of external. Nonetheless, good point and thanks for raising it.

markbohannon

23 Oct 2012

NASA achieves data goals for Mars rover with open source software

Thanks for the heads up! Clarified Railo ... and fixed the date.