Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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An alternative view of funding for innovation
My rant on what’s wrong with Industrie 4.0 argued that it focuses too narrowly on too incremental a domain. The real tectonic change of the last 20-30 years in my opinion is the speed of innovation that software gives you over any other technology domain. Whatever the gadget or concept, if you can add software…
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What’s wrong with Industrie 4.0?
Short answer A lot. The overly narrow focus on a particular domain of innovation starves the support for innovation is other domains, making Germany lose out in those domains. This has been bugging me for some time now. Longer answer Somehow German politics declared “Industrie 4.0” (industry 4.0) to be a major area of innovation…
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Some progress on Wikipedia editing
Wikipedia has long been suffering from its rather raw “wiki markup” editing experience. The reason is that the underlying software is stuck in the mud and any progress is slow and painful. Right now there is some excitement over progress on the “visual editor” of Mediawiki. As you can see in the video below the…
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Open source collaboration: The other open source innovation (in German)
Below, please find a blog post in preparation of the Bitkom OSS Forum in July 2016. Open-Source-Software ist zu einem wichtigen Bestandteil von Softwareprodukten geworden. Es gibt praktisch keine Software mehr, die nicht auch auf Open Source aufbaut. Unternehmen, welche Open-Source-Software in ihren Produkten verwenden, machen sich meist Sorgen um die rechtlichen Konsequenzen, welche Open-Source-Lizenzen…
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Upcoming talk on corporate open source governance in Berlin (in German)
Ich halte zwischen 20-40 Industrievorträge im Jahr. Es sind zuviele, um diese kontinuierlich zu bewerben. Hier aber möchte ich auf einen Vortrag in Berlin hinweisen, im Rahmen des ASQF, zum Thema Corporate Open Source Governance. Governance von Open Source im Unternehmen und in Produkten Open-Source-Software ist immer kostenlos und häufig von hoher Qualität. Anwender können…
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I want my computer to be as easy to use as my rice cooker
There is a (by now oldish) saying, attributed to Bjarne Stroustrup: I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. I used to riff on this with the following variant: For…