Latest in Industry and Research Publications
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Historic periods in (single-vendor) commercial open source
While a comparatively young industry, the software industry nevertheless has a history, and taking from the playbook of other disciplines, understanding our history is important to understanding our future. So I want to ask: What (if any) historic periods are there in single-vendor open source firms? Please note that I’m asking about single-vendor open source…
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Inner source and financial compliance
Inner source is the use of open source practices within companies. Engineers generally love it, but any open-source-style collaboration across business unit boundaries will usually get stopped dead in its tracks by the financial compliance department. That’s because financial compliance is likely to worry that to the tax authorities such inner source collaboration will look…
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Open source community governance the Apache Way (Drost-Fromm & Tompkins, IEEE Computer)
I’m happy to report that the 14th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Open Source Community Governance the Apache Way Keywords Open Source Software, Distributed Computing, Documentation Authors Isabel Drost-Fromm, Apache Software FoundationRob Tompkins, Apache Software Foundation Publication Computer vol. 54, no. 4 (April 2021), pp 70-75 Abstract:…