In March, with much hope, Farelogix, the travel tech company and distributor, began an open source experiment and freely made available to anyone the source code for its travel management point-of-sale tool, Hawkeye.

The idea of Project Hawkeye was to take a hammer to parochialism in the travel industry, with developers downloading the code, building apps and sharing the results so the industry would benefit and embrace a culture of innovation.


Of course, Farelogix would position itself as a neutral arbiter and thereby reap some benefits and goodwill, too.