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What is an open source company?
An open source company is a company whose business model is built on a customer acquisition process in which customers first use a free-to-use open source version of the product before being upsold to a commercial offering by the company. When we talk about commercial open source firms, the word commercial is redundant, because all…
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How to make finding inner source projects easy
In 2006, we set-up SAP forge to make finding and collaborating on inner source projects easy. The advice of how to design a forge or portal for this purpose hasn’t really changed over the years. The most important advice is: Make the forge available at one place (and one place only) with a memorable URL…
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Research-to-startup for postdocs (5min. video for DAAD PRIME workshop)
This 5min. video discusses basics of turning your research into a startup. It focuses on public funding. The video was created for the March 2021 DAAD PRIME workshop, but is not restricted to a postdoc audience. Indeed, it works for anyone with a good idea and ideally a team who is willing to move to…
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A brief history of free, open-source software and its communities (Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, IEEE Computer)
I’m happy to report that the 13th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title A Brief History of Free, Open Source Software and Its Communities Keywords Open Source Software, Licenses, Internet Authors Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Publication Computer vol. 54, no. 2 (February 2021), pp 75-79…
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Summary of the winter 2020/21 AMOS projects
The students of TU Berlin just completed three AMOS projects in the winter semester. The project summaries below detail the final result for each of the projects: Traffic data visualization and extraction Project name Traffic data visualization and extraction Project mission The mission of this project is to deliver a proof of concept which displays traffic…
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Interview with GSO on academia and entrepreneurship
The German Scholars Organization (GSO) just published an interview with me on how to create startups from research in Germany How can you spin your research into a startup? We asked Dirk Riehle, professor of Computer Science and advocate for founders with an academic background, for insights and advice. Before becoming a professor, Dirk has…