Category: 1. Software Industry
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Where is open source in factory automation?
An important benefit of an open source project is that it is long-lived and can’t go out of business. Unlike a closed source supplier, which can go bankrupt, your usage and update rights to an open source software can’t suddenly disappear. From working with customers I know very well that the manufacturers of (comparatively) expensive…
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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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Interpreting the purpose of the Open Usage Commons foundation
Yesterday, the Open Usage Commons (OUC) foundation announced itself. It is a non-profit which wants to ensure free and fair trademark use of the open source projects under its guidance. My Twitter feed was quick to denounce the OUC as a vanity foundation. It certainly is not. A vanity foundation serves to aggrandize its creators,…
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Three reasons why companies are creating their own open source consortium
Most open source these days, certainly the most widely used open source, is developed by companies. Open source, by definition, is competitively non-differentiating, so companies can join forces in its development. To so do peacefully, however, they need good governance that preempts conflicts among the participating companies. Such governance is usually provided under the auspices…
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A key capability German car manufacturers are still missing
My first project as a professor with a German car manufacturer was in 2013, and our industry partner kicked off the first project meeting with the words: Ich bin ein Blechbieger und verstehe von Software nicht so viel.(I bend sheet metal and don’t know much about software.) I think he already was behind the times…