Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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Company support for open source stable for 15 years now?!
I just read Nagle et al.’s Report on the 2020 FOSS Contributor Survey. They find that about 50% of contributors are paid by their employers to work on open source software. This confirms a 2013 paper on paid vs. volunteer work in open source of ours, which also suggested that about half of all development…
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Breaking down organizational silos with inner source (in German)
This coming Friday, December 11th, 2020, at noon CET, I’ll be a guest in Eberhard Wolff’s Software Architektur lunch chat. Our topic is how to break down organizational silos using open source methods, which is, you guessed it, using inner source. Join me through Software Architektur TV and send us your questions in advance (or…
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Continuous open source license compliance (Phipps & Zacchiroli, IEEE Computer)
I’m happy to report that the 12th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Continuous Open Source License Compliance Keywords Open-source software, licenses, supply chains, standards, computer security Authors Simon Phipps; Stefano Zacchiroli Publication Computer vol. 53, no. 12 (December 2020), pp. 115-119 Abstract: This article considers the role…
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Standardizing open source license compliance with OpenChain (Shane Coughlan, IEEE Computer Column)
I’m happy to report that the 11th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Standardizing Open Source License Compliance With OpenChain Keywords Cryptography, distributed databases, IEC standards, ISO standards, legislation, project management, […] Authors Shane Coughlan, Linux Foundation Publication Computer vol. 53, no. 11 (November 2020), pp. 70-74 Abstract:…
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Join me at Europe’s Digital Decade: Empowered by Open Source event
On Nov 5, starting at 2pm, a EU task force will present its findings on open source in Europe on hopin. Join the event and/or join me for my panel session at 5pm about commercial open source startups!
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Tools for software composition analysis (Philippe Ombredanne, IEEE Computer)
I’m happy to report that the tenth article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Free and Open Source Software License Compliance: Tools for Software Composition Analysis Keywords Open-source software, software composition, open source licenses, automation Authors Philippe Ombredanne, nexB Inc. Publication Computer vol. 53, no. 10 (October 2020), pp.…