Latest in Industry and Research Publications
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Commercial Open Source Paper Appears in LNBIP 36
My AMCIS 2009 paper on the Commercial Open Source Business Model will be republished in an LNBIP (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing) issue by Springer-Verlag. The reference is: Dirk Riehle. “The Commercial Open Source Business Model.” In Value Creation in e-Business Management, LNBIP 36. Edited by M.L. Nelson et al. Springer-Verlag, 2009. Page 18–30.…
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ICSE 2009 NIER Presentation on Open Source Comment Density
Our ICSE 2009 NIER short paper on open source comment density had an accompanying poster presentation, provided here for ease of access. It conveniently summarizes some of our prior work. I hope it will be up soon on the ICSE 2009 NIER post-conference page. If SlideShare fails you for some reason or another, here is…
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Is it “Use” or “Reuse”?
In software engineering, it is an old question whether you are “using” a component or whether you are “reusing” it. People tend to use these two terms interchangeably, annoying those among us who are trying to put precise meaning to terms. Alas, I don’t know of a good commonly accepted definition. I only know that…
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Commercial Open Source: Faster, Better, Cheaper, and More Easily?
I’m trying to create a pithy statement as to how commercial open source firms are superior to traditional (closed source) software development firms. For that, I need to define what the specific effects are that using an open source go-to-market strategy has on the bottom line. (If your answer is “it’s the community, naturally”—that’s not…
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Red Hat on Patents and Total Growth of Open Source
A couple of days ago, Red Hat filed a brief with the EPO (European Patent Office), arguing that patents hinder software innovation (as masterfully summarized by Glynn Moody). From Red Hat’s press release: Today Red Hat took its efforts to confront the problem of software patents to new ground by filing a brief with the…
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The Commercial Open Source Business Model [AMCIS 2009]
Abstract: 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 economic paradox: How can a firm earn money if it is making its product available for free as…