Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)

  • Join me at Europe’s Digital Decade: Empowered by Open Source event

    Join me at Europe’s Digital Decade: Empowered by Open Source event

    On Nov 5, starting at 2pm, a EU task force will present its findings on open source in Europe on hopin. Join the event and/or join me for my panel session at 5pm about commercial open source startups!

  • Open source in business on labor economics

    Open source in business on labor economics

    Dave Neary and colleagues recently started a podcast on open source in business. There are already two episodes out, the first one on product management in commercial open source, and the second one on open source and the cloud. Check them out! Even better yet, yours truly will be on the podcast for the third…

  • Where is open source in factory automation?

    Where is open source in factory automation?

    An important benefit of an open source project is that it is long-lived and can’t go out of business. Unlike a closed source supplier, which can go bankrupt, your usage and update rights to an open source software can’t suddenly disappear. From working with customers I know very well that the manufacturers of (comparatively) expensive…