Latest in Industry and Research Publications
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A new commercial open source conference
I’m glad to report that we will have a new open source conference in Europe, focused on commercial open source. I’ll be a speaker and panelist and helped initiate the event. It is not the first of its kind, but I’m very happy that we have a new one with hopefully more staying power than…
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Where is open source in factory automation?
An important benefit of an open source project is that it is long-lived and can’t go out of business. Unlike a closed source supplier, which can go bankrupt, your usage and update rights to an open source software can’t suddenly disappear. From working with customers I know very well that the manufacturers of (comparatively) expensive…
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Course on commercial open source startups at UC Santa Cruz
In September 2020, I will be teaching a workshop series on commercial open source startups at UC Santa Cruz (and starting November, as a course, at FAU). The series at UCSC is being faciliated by CROSS, the Center for Research in Open Source Software, and I’m getting help from Thomas Otter (@vendorprisey). If you would…
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What to call traditional community open source projects not hosted by a foundation?
Community open source projects can be hosted by a foundation or not; if not, we don’t have a good name for these traditional projects.
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A researcher’s perspective on “Do developers care about open source?”
Senior developers weigh costs and benefits when deciding what code components to use
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Open-source research software (Wilhelm Hasselbring et al., IEEE Computer)
For good scientific practice, research software should be open source. It should be both archived for reproducibility and actively maintained for reusability.