Category: 1.1 Industry (General)
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Cloud Computing is not a Business Model
I’m at the Dagstuhl Seminar “Information Management in the Cloud” where I keynoted about cloud computing businesses models. Given that I’m hardly a cloud computing expert this may seem like a stretch, however, the organizers had asked me to talk about my open source experience and relate this to cloud computing. This perspective turned out…
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Controlling and steering open source projects [Computer Magazine]
The IEEE just published a short version of the “control points and steering mechanisms” article. Here is the abstract. Please see the original for more details. Abstract: Open source software has become an important part of the software business. In a 2009 survey, Forrester Research found that 46 percent of all responding enterprises were using…
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The Java IP Story
Every year, I teach the AMOS class, a lab course on “Agile Methods and Open Source” that combines lectures with a real software project that ideally turns into a startup (see the AMOS Project concept, in German). To explain open source, I have to introduce students to intellectual property rights, of which most have been…