Author: Dirk Riehle
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Conflict of interest in open source and PostgreSQL replication
Community open source is open source that is not owned by any particular company. Rather, ownership is shared among a large number of diverse stakeholders. Given the right (read: permissive) license, commercial companies can provide extensions to the community project, earning a living. Since such extensions are a unique selling point of these companies, one…
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Bringing Wikipedia to work: Open collaboration within corporations
This upcoming Wikimania 2008 tutorial discusses the three principles of “open collaboration” which I believe are underlying wikis, open source, and other forms of peer production. It is a follow-up to last year’s tutorial about open collaboration at Wikimania 2007. If the slideshow doesn’t play, please use the PDF file download below. Reference: Dirk Riehle.…
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Richard P. Gabriel: Photography workshop at OOPSLA 2008
For your information, a workshop on photographing technical conferences. Photography Workshop at OOPSLA 2008 Photographing a technical conference well is not a matter of point and shoot, nor is it about taking pictures to share with friends and family. The time is ripe for more serious photojournalism to capture our community’s leaders, its activities, and…
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Dave Humphrey: New graduate program on Linux and open source system administration
For your information, a note from Dave Humphrey on LUX, a new graduate program on Linux and Open Source System Administration at Seneca College, Toronto, ON.
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OSS 2.0: Leveraging the open source community for business
For your information, a research workshop on open source and business. CALL FOR PAPERS OSS 2.0 : Leveraging the Open Source community for business Workshop at OSS 2008 Conference, co-located with IFIP WCC 2008 Milan (Italy) http://conferenze.dei.polimi.it/oss20 Deadline for submission: 21st June 2008 Notification of acceptance: 11th July 2008 Final submission due: 25th July 2008…
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Open source is a business strategy not a business model
Following up on related discussions, another common confusion in my opinion is to think that “open source” is a business model. It is not. Open source is a business strategy, in support of a business model. You still need to know how to make money, and it doesn’t happen by giving software away for free.…