Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Author: Dirk Riehle

Upcoming industry talk on continuous integration / delivery / deployment by Bernard Ramon Ladenthin of IAV GmbH

We will be hosting an industry talk on Continuous Integration / Delivery / Deployment. The talk is free and open to the public. Abstract Today’s world is fast. To keep up, feature requests from the morning need to be fulfilled by lunch. Creating the required software quickly is a must, but how does it end…

2019-12-17
Single-Vendor Open Source Firms and Intellectual Property Strategies (Video)

In this video, I explain the single-vendor open source business model (also: multi-licensing, open core) and in particular its intellectual property strategies. This talk is partly a reaction to the recent licensing changes by commercial open source firms and the resulting confusion. An upcoming article will go into more detail next year. Next to the…

2019-12-17
Upcoming AMOS Demo Day at IAV’s DigiLab

IAV GmbH (Berlin) will be hosting this winter semester’s AMOS demo day. Four student teams will present the results of their work, ranging from a logistics dashboard, through an ECU dashboard, a Git module configuration tool, to a next generation HMI app for Android Automotive OS. Date 2020-02-06 Time 10:15am (start) to 11:45 (end) Location…

2019-12-16
The First Derivative of Software is Eating the World

Marc Andreesen, venture capitalist at a16z, famously stated in 2011: Software is eating the world Wall Street Journal, 2011-08-11 Andreesen’s article describes the immediate impact of software, both as its own product category and as a component of increasing importance in existing (non-software) products. I want to discuss what I consider the first derivative of…

2019-12-09
Industry best practices for FLOSS governance and component reuse [EuroPLoP 2019]

Abstract: Corporate use of open source in software products is on the rise. While this brings a number of technological and business benefits to companies, it also comes with potential legal and financial risks caused by license non-compliance and ungoverned use of open source components. Companies address these threats with free/libre and open source software (FLOSS)…

2019-12-08
How to select open source components (Diomidis Spinellis, IEEE Computer)

I’m happy to report that the fifth article in the new open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title How to Select Open Source Components Keywords Open Source Software, Licenses, Documentation, Computer Bugs, Software Project Management Authors Diomidis Spinellis, Athens University of Economy and Business Publication Computer vol. 52, no. 12 (December 2019),…

2019-12-03