Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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Single-Vendor Open Source Firms and Intellectual Property Strategies (Video)
In this video, I explain the single-vendor open source business model (also: multi-licensing, open core) and in particular its intellectual property strategies. This talk is partly a reaction to the recent licensing changes by commercial open source firms and the resulting confusion. An upcoming article will go into more detail next year. Next to the…
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Upcoming AMOS Demo Day at IAV’s DigiLab
IAV GmbH (Berlin) will be hosting this winter semester’s AMOS demo day. Four student teams will present the results of their work, ranging from a logistics dashboard, through an ECU dashboard, a Git module configuration tool, to a next generation HMI app for Android Automotive OS. Date 2020-02-06 Time 10:15am (start) to 11:45 (end) Location…
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The First Derivative of Software is Eating the World
Marc Andreesen, venture capitalist at a16z, famously stated in 2011: Software is eating the world Wall Street Journal, 2011-08-11 Andreesen’s article describes the immediate impact of software, both as its own product category and as a component of increasing importance in existing (non-software) products. I want to discuss what I consider the first derivative of…
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Industry best practices for FLOSS governance and component reuse [EuroPLoP 2019]
Abstract: Corporate use of open source in software products is on the rise. While this brings a number of technological and business benefits to companies, it also comes with potential legal and financial risks caused by license non-compliance and ungoverned use of open source components. Companies address these threats with free/libre and open source software (FLOSS)…
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How to select open source components (Diomidis Spinellis, IEEE Computer)
I’m happy to report that the fifth article in the new open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title How to Select Open Source Components Keywords Open Source Software, Licenses, Documentation, Computer Bugs, Software Project Management Authors Diomidis Spinellis, Athens University of Economy and Business Publication Computer vol. 52, no. 12 (December 2019),…
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Open Source is an On-ramp to the Cloud
I was surprised to hear the other day that “the cloud is killing open source”. I thought we settled that one ten years ago. Nothing could be further from the truth: Open source and cloud computing work together well. From a commercial open source business model perspective, open source is the on-ramp to a cloud…