Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)
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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…
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Favorite (own) open source research publications
This is a list of my (own) favorite open source research publications. Check them out! 2015 The five stages of open source volunteering The open source software developer career and its benefits 2011 Control points and steering mechanisms in open source software projects 2010 The economic case for open source foundations 2009 The single-vendor commercial…
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Costs of no or poor open source governance
When talking with companies about the use of open source, sooner or later we end up discussing the problem of license compliance. This is perhaps the most prominent aspect of open source governance for companies getting started with using open source. It can be surprisingly difficult to coherently explain the cause and effect chains that…
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Register now for Forum Open Source 2017
On June 20th, the the 2017 Bitkom Open Source Forum will take place in Berlin. In my opinion, this is the best vendor-neutral opportunity in Germany to meet and listen to open source experts and how open source is shaping the German and international software industry. I will present my main blockbuster talk on why…