Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)
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Global Open Source Trends and Public Initiatives
I’ll be moderating the experts panel on “Global Open Source Trends and Public Initiatives” at the half-day Global Open Source Conference on March 24th, 2008, in San Francisco. Panel participants are Mark Radcliffe of DLA Piper, Sander Ruiter from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Tony Wasserman of CMU West, and Arnaud Le Hors of…
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Continuous Integration in Open Source Software Development [OSS 2008]
Authors: Amit Deshpande, Dirk Riehle Abstract: Commercial software firms are increasingly using and contributing to open source software. Thus, they need to understand and work with open source software development processes. This paper investigates whether the practice of continuous integration of agile software development methods has had an impact on open source software projects. Using…
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Is Open Source Bad for Your Career?
ComputerWorld Canada recently published an article about the closing keynote on open source that I had given at the Free Software & Open Source Symposium in Toronto last year. The basic tenet of the article is that I had claimed that software developers will fall on hard times due to open source. This is obviously…
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How to Benefit From Open Source
Title: How to Benefit from Open Source Presenter: Dirk Riehle Institution: SAP Research, SAP Labs LLC Abstract: Open source is changing the game of how software is built and how money is made. This talk analyzes the economics of open source software from three main perspectives: The system integrator perspective, the start-up firm perspective, and…