Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)
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CeBIT Forum on “Open Source und Smart Services”
Today, I’ll be at the CeBIT Forum on open source and smart services to discuss business models based on open source and review a few examples, together with always fabulous Peter Ganten, CEO of Univention, a German Linux distributor. Catch me at 1pm today (2018-06-13) in room München (Munich) on the (CeBIT) Hannover Messegelände (i.e.…
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The fiercer the competition, the more companies open source
How come that companies like IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft are leading so much open source these days? How is it possible that they harmoniously (most of the time anyway) collaborate with each other at the Apache Software Foundation or even Linux Foundation, while they fight each other to the bone in front of the customer?…
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FOSS compliance intensive seminar June 14-15th, 2018 in Berlin (in German)
Catharina Maracke’s Software Compliance Academy writes to us:
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Understanding industry requirements for FLOSS governance tools
Abstract: Almost all software products today incorporate free/libre, and open source software (FLOSS) components. Companies must govern their FLOSS use to avoid potential risks to their intellectual property resulting from the use of FLOSS components. A particular challenge is license compliance. To manage the complexity of license compliance, companies should use tools and well-defined processes to…
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Why don’t companies open source more of their in-house code?
John Mark Walker, in a thread started by Matt Asay, nudged me to provide my opinion on the subject matter. Here we go as a Twitter thread. (I’m trying out Twitter collections and threading for the first time; advice on how to do it better is appreciated.)
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Why companies don’t always free-ride on open source projects
I presented on open source foundations earlier this week to economist friends at TU Munich. I naturally got the question about freeriding: Why does anyone contribute to open source projects, if they could do something else with their time? The cinch: This time we are talking about companies, not invididual people, so the arguments about…