Best of the blogs: Capitalism — yes, as in money — changed open source and for the better. It wasn’t all that long ago that proponents such as Matt Asay insisted it would never touch the application market. “Suddenly, business models started to be discovered that would allow companies to form communities (or leverage existing ones) to monetize open source,” he writes in Open source becoming more innovative? “The next decade goes to the innovators in new markets…not traditional, proprietary software.” Related: Red Hat chides Oracle over Linux. The news beat: With Apple’s former general counsel planning to fight the backdating stock options charges the SEC brought against her, the case is sure to be closely watched. CA inks an outsourcing pact with Achievo to provide implementation, customization and maintenance services for CA’s Chinese customers. And CollabNet buys SourceForge. SOA: “I’m among BPM people that are really SOA people and perhaps don’t know it,” David Linthicum confesses in BPM and SOA. Of course, the idea of BPM in the context of SOA is anything not new, he writes. “The services carry out the work, while the process layer forms the use of services into solutions.” Security: Volunteering for the role of guinea pig to be screened by San Jose Airport’s Falcon device, which uses new millimeter wave technology to see through objects like prosthetics, casts and heavy bandages, Bob Garza found the tool interesting and the whole process only slightly invasive. “The problem with what I experienced with this all-seeing device is it’s image aperture size and number of ‘snapshots’ that had to be used to get a clear picture around a prosthetic,” he explains in Newest airport screening device a day late and a dollar short. “The image taking process took about ten minutes, and I can’t imagine it taking any less then five to ten minutes per person.” Technology Industry