Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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Why open source is good for German software businesses
I’m on the expert advisory committee of one of the German parties for the current “Internet Enquette”, a commission tasked by the German parliament with suggesting future directions for Germany’s stance toward the Internet and everything digital. At a meeting this evening, a lobbyist confided in me: “Open source is bad for German software vendors!”…
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Top-cited research articles on this site
According to Google Scholar, in terms of citations, my leading research paper is: It just reached the 200-citation boundary. Hard on its heels are these: The fastest growing paper (in terms of citations) is this 2007 paper: The “leading” papers are all older papers, as implied by using citations as a measure of relevance. Of…
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Developer Belief vs. Reality: The Case of the Commit Size Distribution [SE 2012]
Abstract: The design of software development tools follows from what the developers of such tools believe is true about software development. A key aspect of such beliefs is the size of code contributions (commits) to a software project. In this paper, we show that what tool developers think is true about the size of code…
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Business Risks and Governance of Open Source in Software Products (in German) [HMD Journal]
Titel: Geschäftsrisiken und Governance von Open-Source in Softwareprodukten Zusammenfassung: In fast jedem Softwareprodukt, auch in großer Standardsoftware, sind heute Open-Source-Komponenten enthalten. Die Hersteller dieser Software müssen die Geschäftsrisiken, die mit der Integration von Open-Source-Software in kommerzielle Produkte verbunden sind, verstehen und vernünftig managen. Dieser Artikel zeigt ein Modell verschiedener rechtlicher, technischer und sozialer Risiken auf,…
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Call for Papers: OSS 2012
For your convenience, the OSS 2012 call for papers (I’m on the program committee). THE 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPEN SOURCE SYSTEMS Hammamet, Tunisia, 10-13 September 2012 Scope of OSS 2012 Over the past two decades, Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) has introduced new successful models for creating, distributing, acquiring and using software and software-based…
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Call for Papers: ECOOP 2012
For your convenience, the ECOOP 2012 call for papers (I’m on the program committee). Call for Papers 征稿启事 The European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) is the premium international conference covering all areas of object technology and related software development technologies. ECOOP 2012 will take place from 11-16 June, 2012 in Beijing, China — only…