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Every Complex System that Works Started Out as a Simple System that Worked
The title of this blog post is my paraphrasing of a “law” from the tongue-in-cheek but nevertheless somewhat serious book “Systemantics” by John Gall. I tracked it down through Grady Booch’s original OOAD book and it had been pointed out to me by Ralph Johnson. What’s so special about this quote? Well, it frames an…
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Open Source Labor Economics…
…is not nearly as sexy a title for an industry talk as is “Open Source Hacker Careers” so it had to go. The result you can observe at the 2009 Open Source Meets Business conference in Nuremberg, Germany, on January 28th, 2009, when I will be giving a talk (almost) so named. Open Source Software…
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Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in Software Development Teams (SofTEAM ’09)
For your information, a workshop on Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in Software Development Teams (SofTEAM ’09) CALL FOR PAPERS European Workshop on “Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in Software Development Teams (SofTEAM’09)” www1.in.tum.de/softeam09
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How Open Source Comments (by Programming Language)
We recently looked at the commenting practice of active working open source projects. It is quite impressive: The average comment density of open source is around 19%. (Comment density is the percentage of text that are comments, or, more formally: comment density = comment lines / (comment lines + source code lines); for example, two…
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The Perils of Going from Community to Commercial Open Source
The growth and corporate adoption of many community open source projects is hindered by the lack of commercial support. At the same time, well working community open source is a temptation for startups to make a buck by turning the community project into commercial open source. We can currently observe the unraveling of such a…
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Capobianco’s OSS 2008 Keynote
Fabrizio Capobianco made the slides from his OSS 2008 keynote available. This is the same conference where we reported about the total (exponential) growth of open source. Unfortunately I had to leave right after our talk for the Wiki Symposium so I didn’t catch him nor could I listen to his talk. His slides, however,…