Category: 1. Software Industry
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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.
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Upcoming Talk, Tsinghua University: Open Source Research
报告题目 Open Source Research 报告人 Prof. Dr. Dirk Riehle, University of Erlangen, Germany 时间 2011年03月17日（周一） 10:00am-noon 地点 FIT大楼 4-302 Abstract: Open source is not just software but also represents a new approach to software development. This type of software development is different from traditional plan-driven and agile methods and scales up to the largest project…
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Curating, preserving, and showing software at the Computer History Museum
Last Saturday I visited the Computer History Museum’s new exhibition “R|Evolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing”. The exhibition is fantastic, and they’ve come a long way from the early days of their “visible storage” exhibition. If you live in or visit the Silicon Valley, I highly recommend you pay it a visit. That said,…