Tag: Evergreen
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Europe’s AI opportunity: Unbiased foundation models
This MIT Technology Review article on “open source AI” argues that Chinese companies, with governmental backing, are embracing an open source approach to AI. They don’t, it is typically only open models that are being provided, not full-blown open source AIs. However, the story is appealing. Still the underdog when compared with the US, China…
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The new closed complement to commercial open-source software
Commercial open source firms make money by selling something that they don’t give away for free. If you’ve been following my writing or even attended my open source business workshop you know that I’ve been calling what companies sell the closed complement. Closed, because customers don’t get it for free, and complement, because it somehow…
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The quotable guide to “why contribute to open source projects”
I provided the following quotes to the Open Logistics Foundation’s member magazine, where they were published in German and in somewhat modified form. Here are the original quotes. Managing your dependencies “Using an open source component creates a dependency on that component. If this dependency is important, the most effective way to manage the dependency…
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Options to have your open-source software and sustain it too
I’m just off a call with a public official discussing their options for an open source future. The topic was the domain-specific software needed by any agency, institution, or government (not generic office or infrastructure software). How to have software for managing health insurance, or school planning, or public transport to be open-source software? At…
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What to look for in startup co-founders and early employees
I have created and participated in several software product startups during my early industry career, and I have created and participated in several as a professor. I intend to do so for many more to come. I’m talking about startups that intend to raise venture capital and become high-growth success stories. Recruiting is job #1…
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Who gets to do velocity and burndown charts in Scrum?
In Scrum, velocity charts display the story points achieved in a given sprint, and a burndown chart displays the total size of features you expect to deliver in future sprints until the end of the project release cycle, typically with the goal of reaching zero remaining features to be done. I teach Scrum at German…