Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)
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Conflict of Interest in Open Source and PostgreSQL Replication
Community open source is open source that is not owned by any particular company. Rather, ownership is shared among a large number of diverse stakeholders. Given the right (read: permissive) license, commercial companies can provide extensions to the community project, earning a living. Since such extensions are a unique selling point of these companies, one…
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FOSSBazaar: Open Source Under the CIO’s Radar Screen: Good or Bad?
Commercial open source has a peculiar sales process. Frequently, when a firm decides to buy (license) a specific type of software like a content management system or a wiki engine, they’ll find that their company already employs multiple solutions, downloaded for free from the Internet. By some measures, this is dangerous to IT governance, as…
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Addendum to Total Growth of Open Source Paper
Based on multiple requests, for the Total Growth of Open Source paper, we are providing a table of doubling times for the exponential models as well as semi-log scale graphs of the growth curves. Table 1: Doubling times for the growth curves