Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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Sorting out the Ethical Licensing Mess
Software developers who give the world, for free, usage rights to the code they write often use open source licenses to make this gift legally explicit. These free usage rights (and then some) are encoded in all valid open source licenses, next to the obligations one has to fulfill to receive the rights grant. Recently,…
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Managing the open source dependency (Tomas Gustavsson, IEEE Computer)
I’m happy to report that the sixth article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Managing the Open Source Dependency Keywords Computer applications, open-source software Authors Tomas Gustavsson, PrimeKey Publication Computer vol. 53, no. 2 (February 2020), pp. 83-87 Abstract: Organizations use open source software in a majority of computer…
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Photo Impressions from the Winter 2019/20 AMOS Projects
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Summary of the Winter 2019/20 AMOS Projects
This winter semester, students of TU Berlin completed four AMOS projects. Each section below describes the final result of one of the projects: Logistics Dashboard Project name Logistics Dashboard Project mission The mission of this project is to create a ‘real-time dashboard for logistics’. The application helps planners to communicate with balancers remotely and automatize…
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Single-Vendor Open Source Firms and Intellectual Property Strategies (Slides)
In this talk, I explain the single-vendor open source business model (also: multi-licensing, open core) and in particular its intellectual property strategies. This is the slide deck of a previously posted video. The deck is also available as a PDF for download.
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Open Source and Public Policy (Slides)
In this talk, I explain the significance of the software industry for a country’s economy and how to strengthen it using open source. It is directed at public policy makers and the general public. This is the slide deck of a previously posted video. The deck is also available as a PDF for download.