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![Lessons Learned from Using Design Patterns in Industry Projects [TPLOP Journal]](https://dirkriehle.com/wp-content/uploads/featured/10526-berlin-suedkreuz-subway-3-300x150.jpg)
Lessons Learned from Using Design Patterns in Industry Projects [TPLOP Journal]
Abstract: Design patterns help in the creative act of designing, implementing, and documenting software systems. They have become an important part of the vocabulary of experienced software developers. This article reports about the author’s experiences and lessons learned with using and applying design patterns in industry projects. The article not only discusses how using patterns…
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![Micro-Blogging Adoption in the Enterprise: An Empirical Analysis [WI 2011]](https://dirkriehle.com/wp-content/uploads/featured/10527-beijing-summer-palace-2-300x150.jpg)
Micro-Blogging Adoption in the Enterprise: An Empirical Analysis [WI 2011]
Abstract: Given the increasing interest in using social software for company-internal communication and collaboration, this paper examines drivers and inhibitors of micro-blogging adoption at the workplace. While nearly one in two companies is currently planning to introduce social software, there is no empirically validated research on employees’ adoption. In this paper, we build on previous…
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![The single-vendor commercial open source business model [Book Chapter]](https://dirkriehle.com/wp-content/uploads/featured/10117-tokyo-temple-300x150.jpg)
The single-vendor commercial open source business model [Book Chapter]
Update 2012-01-28: Springer changed the citation. The reference below reflects this. Springer just republished our 2009 article on how vendor-owned open source works, again. Here is the abstract: Abstract: Single-vendor commercial open source software projects are open source software projects that are owned by a single firm that derives a direct and significant revenue stream…
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Control points and steering mechanisms in open-source software projects
Following up on my Lisog talk earlier this month, I was asked to write up the talk’s content. So here we go, my analysis of what commercial open source firms do to manage or steer open source projects they depend on. Abstract: Most commercial software today depends on open source software. The commercial software might…
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Upcoming Talk: Steering and Control Mechanisms in Open Source Software Projects (in German)
Next week, on Nov 11, 2011, I’ll give the keynote talk (in German) at the annual Lisog gathering. Lisog is a non-profit organization working to create a sustainable co-existence of open and closed source software. Title: Steering and Control Mechanisms in Open Source Software Projects Abstract: Open source has become commercial. With commercial interests, it…
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Revamping German Copyright Law #EIDG
The German Enquete commission “Internet and Digital Society” is a multilateral commission instituted by the German parliament to discuss and make recommendations on, well, Internet and digital society. I’m a member of an expert advisory council for one of the parties involved in the commission. I received the following catalog of questions and thought I’d…