Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)

  • Openness is a red Herring, lock-in is the real deal

    Openness is a red Herring, lock-in is the real deal

    If you are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it should be easy to switch to Suse Linux Enterprise Server, right? You’d do that if you disagree with Red Hat’s pricing and Suse provides a better deal. Sadly, a real-world calculation has to take the switching costs into account, because RHEL and SLES are not exactly…

  • The corporate open source strategy [Rebooting Computing Conference]

    The corporate open source strategy [Rebooting Computing Conference]

    Today I’m giving a talk on the corporate open source strategy at the TTI Vanguard Rebooting Computing conference. In the available 30 min. I’m focusing on the perspective of software users, as this is not a conference for the software industry but for everyone else (with a stronghold in financial services). Below please find a…

  • Lessons learned from the Ant Group open source program office (Xia et al., IEEE Computer Column)

    Lessons learned from the Ant Group open source program office (Xia et al., IEEE Computer Column)

    I’m happy to report that the 24th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Lessons Learned From the Ant Group Open Source Program Office Keywords — Authors Xiaoya Xia, Wei Wang, Shengyu Zhao, Sikang Bian, Rong Wang Publication Computer vol. 56, no. 4 (April 2023), pp. 92-97 Abstract: This…

  • Open source usability and user experience (Mikko Rajanen, IEEE Computer Column)

    Open source usability and user experience (Mikko Rajanen, IEEE Computer Column)

    I’m happy to report that the 23nd article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Open Source Usability and User Experience Keywords — Authors Mikko Rajanen, University of Oulu Publication Computer vol. 56, no. 2 (February 2023), pp. 106-110 Abstract: This article highlights the challenges of user-centered and usability processes…

  • Women in open source: We need to talk about it (Trinkenreich et al., IEEE Computer Column)

    Women in open source: We need to talk about it (Trinkenreich et al., IEEE Computer Column)

    I’m happy to report that the 22nd article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Women in Open Source: We Need to Talk About It Keywords — Authors Bianca Trinkenreich, Marco Aurelio Gerosa, and Igor Steinmacher (Northern Arizona University) Publication Computer vol. 55, no. 12 (December 2022), pp. 145-149 Abstract:…

  • Open source legal debt

    Open source legal debt

    Open source legal debt is unwanted open-source code in your products and projects. Code may be unwanted, if it does not fit your (a company’s) business model. An example is code that has been copied from StackOverflow into your code base. That’s because code from StackOverflow has a copyleft license, which means that as you…