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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…