Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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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.
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How non-software vendors fail and how inner source can help
Non-software vendors should avoid creating a separate software organization but rather should have existing product units collaborate inner source style.
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Why istio matters to Google
Istio matters to Google, because it is an excellent on-ramp to GCP, Google’s cloud platform.
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Interpreting the purpose of the Open Usage Commons foundation
Yesterday, the Open Usage Commons (OUC) foundation announced itself. It is a non-profit which wants to ensure free and fair trademark use of the open source projects under its guidance. My Twitter feed was quick to denounce the OUC as a vanity foundation. It certainly is not. A vanity foundation serves to aggrandize its creators,…
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The German Corona Warn App, a legally defective product?
By all measures, the German Corona Warn app is already a highly successful software product. However, from the perspective of open source license compliance, it is defective. Using open source code in your product requires that you fulfill the obligations of the open source licenses of that code, and the Corona Warn app does not…