Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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If Open Data is Like Open Source (20 Years Ago) 1/5: Definition
In five posts, I want to speculate about the next twenty years of open data based on the past twenty years of open source. The idea is to transfer what we learned from open source in one way or another to open data. This is part 1 on the definition of open data. Please note…
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Upcoming industry talk on enabling digital transformation via scaling agile in the financial industry by Munir Mahrufi and Liang Que of Deloitte Consulting GmbH
We will host an industry talk on “Enabling Digital Transformation via Scaling Agile in the Financial Industry” in AMOS, our agile methods course. The talk is free and open to the public. Abstract “Every business is a software business now. Agility isn’t an option, or a thing just for teams, it is a business imperative.…
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What’s So Bad About the Open Core Model?
It is common to see members of the open source community at large bash companies that use an open core model to make money. I have always found that curious, because the open source community is not against making money, but many are against making money using this particular approach. Just why? In the open…
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Open source is not free (nor is free software)
Later this week I’ll be on a panel at the Automotive Computing Conference in Frankfurt. The organizers sent the questions in advance, and sure enough, they were asking how open source could provide viable software components if it is free (of cost). This perhaps is the most common commercial misconception about open source. Open source…
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Getting started with open source governance (Jeff McAffer, IEEE Computer)
I’m happy to report that the fourth article in the new open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Getting Started With Open Source Governance Keywords Companies, licenses, security, software, law Authors Jeff McAffer, GitHub Publication Computer vol. 52, no. 10 (October 2019), pp. 92-96 Abstract: Using and managing open source is essential…
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Digital Sovereignty for Germany?
Last week the German government published a commissioned study on how it depends on software and services vendors (local copy). The day after the publication, Cathrin Schaer of ZDnet called to ask for my thoughts on the study and digital sovereignty for Germany: Is it even possible? Cathrin’s resulting article picked up some of our…