Category: 1. Software Industry
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The Java IP Story
Every year, I teach the AMOS class, a lab course on “Agile Methods and Open Source” that combines lectures with a real software project that ideally turns into a startup (see the AMOS Project concept, in German). To explain open source, I have to introduce students to intellectual property rights, of which most have been…
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The Open Source Big Bang
Open source is not only software, but also an approach to software development. The public nature of open source projects lets us show how open source software development scales to the largest project sizes. The following figure illustrates the scalability of open source software development. I call it the big bang of open source. The…
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The Open Source Innovation and Commoditization Frontier
Following up on Matt Aslett’s excellent post about the growth of permissive licenses and a short discussion about it on my research group’s blog, I wanted to suggest here a thought about the ratio of new vendor-owned vs. community-owned open source projects. I’m ignoring existing projects because of their path dependence (read: only today do…
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New Talk: How and Why IT User Companies Sponsor Open Source
New talk! For German, see below. Other stock talks here. If you are interested in this talk, feel free to contact me. Topics Open source, IT user company, open source foundation, sponsored open source Audience CIO, CFO, product manager, project manager Format 45min talk, 60min talk Level Intermediate How and Why IT User Companies Sponsor…
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Open Commons Region Linz is Starting
The region of and around Linz, Austria, has declared itself the Open Commons Region Linz. The opening festivities, including talks, free-of-charge, will take place on April 11th, 2011, in Linz (naturally). Read more about it on the blog of the Open Commons Region Linz! I’m a member of the academic advisory council of the Open…
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More Upcoming Talks: Open Source Research
I’ll be presenting the Open Source Research talk repeatedly over the next few months. The next three instances are in China, specifically: After that it’s back to Germany.