Category: 1. Software Industry
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Commercial open source and the cloud
I just presented 15 min. of my thoughts on the product management challenge of open source and the role of cloud computing at O4B, the European commercial open source forum. You can watch the video below (local video copy, slide download). I also make few remarks on the public funding ecosystem for high-tech startups in…
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A new commercial open source conference
I’m glad to report that we will have a new open source conference in Europe, focused on commercial open source. I’ll be a speaker and panelist and helped initiate the event. It is not the first of its kind, but I’m very happy that we have a new one with hopefully more staying power than…
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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,…