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The economic case for open source foundations [Computer Magazine]
Abstract: An open source foundation is a group of people and companies that has come together to jointly develop community open source software. Examples include the Apache Software Foundation, the Eclipse Foundation, and the Gnome Foundation. There are many reasons why software development firms join and support a foundation. One common economic motivation is to…
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Workshop on Open Source, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
The Chair for Economic Policy (Prof. Andreas Freytag) at the Friedrich-Schiller-University and the Max Planck Institute of Econonics, Jena, Germany, are organizing a workshop on “open source, innovation, and entrepreneurship.” It takes place next week, on Jan 14, 2010. It used to be a private, invitation-only workshop, but the organizers decided to open it up…
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2010 Open Source Research Workshops Galore!
It is no big news that open source research has been growing strongly in recent years. However, the recent string of conference and workshop announcements is just amazing. Here is a short run-down of what reached me the last two weeks: 10.-12.02.2010: Workshop on the Future of Research on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) 08.05.2010: 2010…
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Up and Coming Conference Calls for Papers
If you are interested in open source and software engineering, please take a look at these upcoming events: 27.12.2009: (F/L)OSS 2010, research program call for papers 11.01.2009: SSE 2010, a workshop on social software engineering 25.03.2010: OOPSLA 2010, research program call for papers 31.03.2010: Fourth F/LOSS Workshop Disclaimer: Except for the last one I’m on…
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Open Source Vendor Lock-in
Yesterday, SAP’s CTO Vishal Sikka called for a more open approach to the Java standardization process (JCP), asking SUN to stop ruling it with a heavy hand. Not surprisingly, he got some pushback using the argument that SAP isn’t one to talk about being more open, given its slow involvement with open source. I don’t…
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Talk Slides: Design Pattern Density Defined
Here the slides for my OOPSLA Onward! 2009 talk on “Design Pattern Density Defined.” First the abstract: Design pattern density is a metric that measures how much of an object-oriented design can be understood and represented as instances of design patterns. Expert developers have long believed that a high design pattern density implies a high…