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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…
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The Missed Opportunity in Defining Open Source #OpenCoreSummit
I’m at my Ph.D. student retreat, following the Open Core Summit, a commercial conference on the use of open source strategies by product vendors, on Twitter. From afar, it appears that the attack on the definition of open source has made it to the conference. This is regrettable, but possible because of a root problem…
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Industry best practices for corporate open sourcing [HICSS 2020]
Abstract: Companies usually don’t share the source code for the software they develop. While this approach is justified in software that constitutes differentiating intellectual property, proprietary development can lead to redundant development and other opportunity costs. In response, companies are increasingly open sourcing some if not all of their non-differentiating software. Given the limited academic…