An Alliance of Major Players to Guide Open-Source Software - NYTimes.com

More interesting times ahead for traditional ISVs; also see Facebook launches an open source organization and releases new routing tech (GigaOM)

"Members of TODO, which stands for “talk openly, develop openly,” include [Facebook and] Google and Walmart’s online operations, along with GitHub, the primary repository for working on open-source projects, and Khan Academy, a nonprofit online educational organization. Other members are Twitter, Box, Dropbox, Stripe and Square.

Since the group was announced, over 30 other companies have added themselves to the TODO list, including The New York Times, according to a company spokesman."

An Alliance of Major Players to Guide Open-Source Software - NYTimes.com