Category: 1. Software Industry
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Open source usability and user experience (Mikko Rajanen, IEEE Computer Column)
I’m happy to report that the 23nd article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Open Source Usability and User Experience Keywords — Authors Mikko Rajanen, University of Oulu Publication Computer vol. 56, no. 2 (February 2023), pp. 106-110 Abstract: This article highlights the challenges of user-centered and usability processes…
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Women in open source: We need to talk about it (Trinkenreich et al., IEEE Computer Column)
I’m happy to report that the 22nd article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Women in Open Source: We Need to Talk About It Keywords — Authors Bianca Trinkenreich, Marco Aurelio Gerosa, and Igor Steinmacher (Northern Arizona University) Publication Computer vol. 55, no. 12 (December 2022), pp. 145-149 Abstract:…
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Open source legal debt
Open source legal debt is unwanted open-source code in your products and projects. Code may be unwanted, if it does not fit your (a company’s) business model. An example is code that has been copied from StackOverflow into your code base. That’s because code from StackOverflow has a copyleft license, which means that as you…
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Non-software-industry user-led open source consortia
tl;dr We observe sustained growth in what we call non-software-industry user-led open-source consortia. These are open-source consortia (non-profit organizations) created by companies from outside the software industry with the goal of developing the applications these companies need to run their business. Their behaviors are different from other open-source consortia and we can see this expressed…
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Two issue break of IEEE Computer Column Open Source Expanded
Thanks to this editor’s inability to wield their whip effectively, the IEEE Computer magazine’s open source column is taking a two issue break: There wasn’t an August 2022 article and there won’t be an October 2022 article in IEEE Computer magazine. We will resume our regular bi-monthly schedule in December 2022. Until then you may…
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How to think about a dependency on commercial open-source software
Another day in open source land, another vendor relicensing away from an open source license to a source-available license. What was new for me this time, however, was that Apache Flink, a community open source project, had a dependency on Lightbend’s Akka, the commercial open source project that relicensed. This is surprising, because in my…