Category: 1. Software Industry
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Talk slides: The commercial open source business model
For my AMCIS 2009 talk on the single-vendor commercial open source business model, first the abstract, then the slides: Commercial open source software projects are open source software projects that are owned by a single firm that derives a direct and significant revenue stream from the software. Commercial open source at first glance represents an…
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The intellectual property rights imperative of single-vendor open source
I guess everybody knows it but nobody ever named it, as far as I know, so I’m doing it here: The Intellectual Property Rights Imperative of Single-Vendor Commercial Open Source Always act in such a way that you, and only you, possess the right to provide the open source project under a license of your…
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Every license has its time and place
You may have noticed the recent discussion about which open source license a single-vendor commercial open source firm should choose for its community offering. In this blog post I’ll argue that this choice depends on the state and speed of the firm.
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Patterns of effective tweeting and retweeting
These are patterns and practices of getting the most out of your 140 characters on Twitter. dirkriehle: Examples are in-lined using blockquote like this; the author is named first Table of Contents General Principles Informational Messages Directed Conversations Social Filtering Global Communication
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A Twitter best practice
There are many best practices of using Twitter for organizations. Here is one; I may post others in loose order as I have good examples at hand. I was attending IBM’s NPUC:09. Like many, my first reaction when I’m unhappy these days is to tweet about it. dirkriehle: Almaden is a great location, on top…
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Commercial open source: The naming confusion remains
In 2004, SugarCRM coined the term “commercial open source“. This term was intend to separate the commercially-oriented open source projects of venture-capital-backed startups from the then dominant community open source projects. The term was picked up quickly, by many. I (as well as others) define it the following way: “A commercial open source firm is…