Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

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  • A systematic analysis of problems in open collaborative data engineering [TSC Journal]

    A systematic analysis of problems in open collaborative data engineering [TSC Journal]

    Abstract Collaborative workflows are common in open-source software development. They reduce individual costs and improve the quality of work results. Open data shares many characteristics with open-source software as it can be used, modified, and redistributed by anyone, for free. However, in contrast to open-source software engineering, collaborative data engineering on open data lacks a…

  • Myopia: Is it a feature or a product?

    Myopia: Is it a feature or a product?

    A common mistake of inexperienced entrepreneurs is to confuse a feature with a product. The best recent illustrating example I can think of is the flashlight app: For a short moment in time, you could sell flashlight apps for mobile phones until Apple and Google came in, assimilated the flashlight function as a feature into…

  • Will open source fix the public cloud vendor lock-in?

    Will open source fix the public cloud vendor lock-in?

    Over on Twi… what-shall-not-be-named, Kelsey Hightower argued that companies want on-premise back and that this is happening by on-premise product vendors copying cloud APIs in their products: It might just turn out that the cloud was the best way to research and design better ways of managing our systems, and thanks to the open source…

  • Let’s celebrate relicensing from an open source to a proprietary license

    Let’s celebrate relicensing from an open source to a proprietary license

    tl;dr Commercial open source firms are beneficial to society, even if they eventually license away from open source, because they are exploring a search space for useful open-source software that is otherwise hard to get to. Commercial open source firms that license away from open source licenses to non-compete licenses don’t get a lot of…

  • Cybersecurity risks unique to open source and what communities are doing to reduce them (Matthew L. Levy, IEEE Computer)

    Cybersecurity risks unique to open source and what communities are doing to reduce them (Matthew L. Levy, IEEE Computer)

    I’m happy to report that the 25th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Cybersecurity Risks Unique to Open Source and What Communities Are Doing to Reduce Them Keywords Public Domain Software, Risk Management, Security Of Data, Cybersecurity Risk, Open Source, Risk Areas, Source Projects Authors Matthew L. Levy…

  • Open source dependencies are investments

    Open source dependencies are investments

    The Linux Foundation’s research arm just published a report about interviews with 32 maintainers of critical open source projects (local copy). Only 62% of these maintainers, i.e. 20 people, were employed by their organizations to work on these open source components. I consider this low and would have expected a higher number. What’s worse, only…