Category: 1. Software Industry
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Why companies don’t always free-ride on open source projects
I presented on open source foundations earlier this week to economist friends at TU Munich. I naturally got the question about freeriding: Why does anyone contribute to open source projects, if they could do something else with their time? The cinch: This time we are talking about companies, not invididual people, so the arguments about…
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Favorite (own) open source research publications
This is a list of my (own) favorite open source research publications. Check them out! 2015 The five stages of open source volunteering The open source software developer career and its benefits 2011 Control points and steering mechanisms in open source software projects 2010 The economic case for open source foundations 2009 The single-vendor commercial…
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Costs of no or poor open source governance
When talking with companies about the use of open source, sooner or later we end up discussing the problem of license compliance. This is perhaps the most prominent aspect of open source governance for companies getting started with using open source. It can be surprisingly difficult to coherently explain the cause and effect chains that…
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Register now for Forum Open Source 2017
On June 20th, the the 2017 Bitkom Open Source Forum will take place in Berlin. In my opinion, this is the best vendor-neutral opportunity in Germany to meet and listen to open source experts and how open source is shaping the German and international software industry. I will present my main blockbuster talk on why…
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Entrepreneurship panel at IT-Gipfel Göttingen #itgipfelgoe
A few days ago, I participated in a panel on entrepreneurship in the beautiful but small city of Göttingen, Germany. While a university town, it isn’t exactly the Silicon Valley either, much like my current home town of Erlangen. Thus, on the panel, I ran into the usual German morals on what makes a good…
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Startupinformatik at IT-Gipfel Göttingen #itgipfelgoe
I just returned from a presentation (and panel discussion) about entrepreneurship and Startupinformatik, my structured approach to creating student startups from a computer science Master’s program. Below, please find the slides of my presentation.