Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 1.4 Open Source Foundations

  • What now, open source infrastructure startups?

    What now, open source infrastructure startups?

    It took exactly eight days for the Linux Foundation to announce they’ll be hosting a fork of the last open source version of the popular Redis key value store after its owner announced a license change to the SSPLv1, a source-available (non-open-source) license. The fork is well supported by industry heavyweights, and it appears industry…

  • Non-software-industry user-led open source consortia

    Non-software-industry user-led open source consortia

    tl;dr We observe sustained growth in what we call non-software-industry user-led open-source consortia. These are open-source consortia (non-profit organizations) created by companies from outside the software industry with the goal of developing the applications these companies need to run their business. Their behaviors are different from other open-source consortia and we can see this expressed…

  • Problems, solutions, and success factors in the openMDM user-led open source consortium [CAIS Journal]

    Problems, solutions, and success factors in the openMDM user-led open source consortium [CAIS Journal]

    Abstract: Open-source software (OSS) development offers organizations an alternative to purchasing proprietary software or commissioning custom software. In one form of OSS development, organizations develop the software they need in collaboration with other organizations. If the software is used by the organizations to operate their business, such collaborations can lead to what we call “user-led…