Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 1. Software Industry

  • Why Now? And Who? The Struggle Over Single-Vendor / Open-Core Licensing

    Why Now? And Who? The Struggle Over Single-Vendor / Open-Core Licensing

    Update 2023-08-26: Redis writes to us that they rebranded from Redis Labs, to Redis. In yesterday’s talk I reviewed the current licensing struggle of single-vendor open source firms. Single-vendor open source firms go to market by providing software they developed for free, under an open source license, while also offering a commercially licensed version of…

  • Single-Vendor Open Source at the Crossroads (Slides) #lfosls

    Single-Vendor Open Source at the Crossroads (Slides) #lfosls

    I’ll be giving a presentation on single-vendor open source today at the Linux Foundation Open Source Leadership Summit 2019. Abstract: Most venture capital funding in open source flows to single-vendor open source firms. With the struggles over licensing in the cloud, these companies find themselves at the crossroads: Stay true to open source or move…

  • Comments on the state of open source in Germany (in German)

    Comments on the state of open source in Germany (in German)

    A German trade magazine for IT professionals just published an article on the state of open source (in German). Yours truly and many others are featured in there, commenting (or lamenting) on how Germany needs to catch-up on open source, a propellant of digitization, as the author notes.

  • Too many points of failure (at Theranos)

    Too many points of failure (at Theranos)

    I just finished reading John Carreyrou’s book Bad Blood, which presents the story of the rise and fall of one-time Silicon Valley unicorn Theranos through his eyes as the journalist who broke the story. In case you missed it: Theranos was a healthcare company promising to sell a machine that could perform quickly and reliably…

  • The Innovations of Open Source colloquium talk at University of Hamburg

    The Innovations of Open Source colloquium talk at University of Hamburg

    Update 2019-01-30: The talk slides and a video recording (local copy) are available now. I got invited and will be presenting a talk in the colloquium of the computer science department at the University of Hamburg tomorrow, January 28th, 2019, at 17:00 Uhr. The talk topic are the innovations of open source and I will present…

  • Why do episodic volunteers stay in FLOSS communities? [ICSE 2019]

    Why do episodic volunteers stay in FLOSS communities? [ICSE 2019]

    Abstract: Successful Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects incorporate both habitual and infrequent, or episodic, contributors. Using the concept of episodic volunteering (EV) from the general volunteering literature, we derive a model consisting of five key constructs that we hypothesize affect episodic volunteers’ retention in FLOSS communities. To evaluate the model we conducted a…