Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 1.4 Open Source Foundations

  • Options to have your open-source software and sustain it too

    Options to have your open-source software and sustain it too

    I’m just off a call with a public official discussing their options for an open source future. The topic was the domain-specific software needed by any agency, institution, or government (not generic office or infrastructure software). How to have software for managing health insurance, or school planning, or public transport to be open-source software? At…

  • From data to action: Building healthy and sustainable open source projects (Dawn Foster, IEEE Computer)

    From data to action: Building healthy and sustainable open source projects (Dawn Foster, IEEE Computer)

    I’m happy to report that the 35th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. As always, please consider writing an article proposal! Title From data to action: Building healthy and sustainable open source projects Keywords None Authors Dawn Foster Publication Computer vol. 58, no. 6 (June 2025), pp. 74-78 Abstract:…

  • Improving country-level competitiveness through open source consortia

    Improving country-level competitiveness through open source consortia

    The German economy would be better off, and overall more competitive, if its participants collaborated on the development of open-source software they need to operate their business. They could free themselves from (some) of the dependencies (vendor lock-in) on the Silicon Valley while reducing overall costs, setting standards, etc. Such collaboration is typically industry-specific: Open-source…

  • Why and how do organizations create user-led open source consortia? [INFSOF Journal]

    Why and how do organizations create user-led open source consortia? [INFSOF Journal]

    Abstract Context User-led open source (OS) consortia (foundations) consist of organizations from industries beyond the software industry collaborating to create open-source software solutions for their internal processes. Initially pioneered by higher education organizations in the 2000s, this concept has gained traction in recent years across various industries.  Objective This study has two research objectives (ROs).…

  • Why do companies create and how do they succeed with a vendor‑led open source foundation [EMSE Journal]

    Why do companies create and how do they succeed with a vendor‑led open source foundation [EMSE Journal]

    Abstract Vendor-led open source foundations are open source foundations led by software vendors rather than individual developers or end-user organizations. Our research investigates why vendors create or join such foundations, and how these foundations succeed. We conducted exploratory single-case study research, with the LF Edge foundation as our case. We collected qualitative data in the…

  • 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…