Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)
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What to call traditional community open source projects not hosted by a foundation?
Community open source projects can be hosted by a foundation or not; if not, we don’t have a good name for these traditional projects.
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Why istio matters to Google
Istio matters to Google, because it is an excellent on-ramp to GCP, Google’s cloud platform.
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The innovations of open source article republished in IEEE Computing Edge’s April 2020 issue
IEEE’s Computing Edge magazine is a practitioner-oriented publication that republishes particularly popular content from other IEEE publications. In the April 2020 issue, they republished last year’s The Innovations of Open Source article that I wrote to open IEE Computer magazine’s bimonthly open source column. Best of all, it is free! (Original version, local copy.) I…
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Managing episodic volunteers in free/libre, and open-source software communities [TSE Journal]
Abstract We draw on the concept of episodic volunteering (EV) from the general volunteering literature to identify practices for managing EV in free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) communities. Infrequent but ongoing participation is widespread, but the practices that community managers are using to manage EV, and their concerns about EV, have not been previously documented. We…
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An Analysis of Copyleft Compliance Behavior
It is the year 2020 and my Twitterverse and other professional time sinks are still full of … comments about Copyleft. So for the first time ever, I decided to venture into that pit. I see four observable behaviors when it comes to complying with copyleft. Kickin’ and screamin’ No use Dump and run Enlightened…
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Sorting out the Ethical Licensing Mess
Software developers who give the world, for free, usage rights to the code they write often use open source licenses to make this gift legally explicit. These free usage rights (and then some) are encoded in all valid open source licenses, next to the obligations one has to fulfill to receive the rights grant. Recently,…