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Key Statements from Marten Mickos’ PARC Forum Talk
I just finished listening to Marten Mickos at PARC Forum on open source businesses. Below please find my list of key statements from this talk. Most are well-known, some remain controversial, however, as a researcher it is good to be able to pinpoint such statements.
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Community Open Source as the Raw Material of Computing Utility Providers
It’s April 2nd, so the Apache Software Foundation’s 2010 April Fools’ joke is over. Here is why I liked it a lot. It represents a hypothetical: What if the ASF and its projects could be bought? Or, if not bought, then put under control or strong influence of corporate interests like in traditional open source…
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Three Areas of Open Source Economics
These days, I get involved in a lot of discussions about open source economics. Usually, they lead to an invitation to present our research and clarify “how open source works” to the audience. I’ve found it helpful to distinguish these three rather different areas of open source economics: (1) direct profits, (2) public welfare, (3)…
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Open Source: A New Developer Career
Update, 2010-03-19: Linux Magazin made the talk video available. Their data shows that more than 10,000 people watched it live! I noticed an increasing interest into a general-interest talk of mine on how open source creates a new software developer career. This is not a rara (pep) talk but rather (I hope) an economically rational…
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Next Three Public Open Source Talks
Next three public talks on open source that I’ll be giving in Germany: Nuremberg, 25.02.10 – Talend Business Lunch, talk topic: Sustainability of Commercial Open Source Hannover, 02.03.10 – CeBIT Open Source Forum keynote: Open Source Software Developer Careers Erlangen, 30.04.10 – Tag der Informatik, Uni Erlangen-Nürnberg: Open Source and the Software End-Game
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Call for Papers: OOPSLA 2010, Expanded Scope!
Update 2010-05-28: The accepted papers are listed here now. If you are looking for a well-documented object-oriented framework to try your method, check-out this JUnit 3.8 documentation. There is more object-oriented software design case study documentation, of course. OOPSLA 2010 Research Papers October 17 to 20 Reno/Tahoe Nevada, USA www.splashcon.org Paper Submission Deadline: March 25,…