Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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![Single-vendor open source firms [Computer Magazine]](https://dirkriehle.com/wp-content/uploads/featured/10100-zurich-lindenhof-300x150.jpg)
Single-vendor open source firms [Computer Magazine]
I’m happy to report that the seventh article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Single-Vendor Open Source Firms Keywords Open Source, Single-vendor Open Source, Commercial Open Source Authors Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg Publication Computer vol. 53, no. 4 (April 2020), pp. 68-72 Abstract: This article present a particular business…
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![Managing episodic volunteers in free/libre, and open-source software communities [TSE Journal]](https://dirkriehle.com/wp-content/uploads/featured/10139-passau-river-sun-300x150.jpg)
Managing episodic volunteers in free/libre, and open-source software communities [TSE Journal]
Abstract We draw on the concept of episodic volunteering (EV) from the general volunteering literature to identify practices for managing EV in free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) communities. Infrequent but ongoing participation is widespread, but the practices that community managers are using to manage EV, and their concerns about EV, have not been previously documented. We…
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GitHub workflows for office documents
On April 1st, 2020 (no joke), we founded EDITIVE, to take the lessons learned from git and GitHub to office documents. Here is an illustration of the problem that EDITIVE is solving, a typical office document for a contract that has been mangled by too many people: The solution to sort out a mess like…
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Why I gray-listed GitHub for open source
Most of my software development is through my professorship, where I guide my student teams in developing (mostly) open source software. We have clear rules in place for how and which open source can be used in our projects and which can’t, like any competent organization. Mostly, it is about license compliance. We owe this…
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Please Help Keep our Language Precise: Single-Vendor Open Source is Neo-Proprietary Source, not Closed Source
When the Open Source Initiative defined open source, it focused only on the license, and ignored the process. Smart entrepreneurs quickly discovered that they could provide to the world their product as open source code and benefit from it, while strictly controlling the process to keep competition at bay. This is called single-vendor open source.…
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![Challenges of tracking and documenting open source dependencies in products [OSS 2020]](https://dirkriehle.com/wp-content/uploads/featured/10144-porto-cemetary-candles-300x150.jpg)
Challenges of tracking and documenting open source dependencies in products [OSS 2020]
Software vendors need to manage the dependencies of the open source components used in their products. Without this management, license compliance would be impossible, export restrictions could not be maintained, and security vulnerabilities would remain unknown to the vendor. The management of these dependencies has grown in an ad-hoc fashion in most companies. As such,…