The new coming relicensing scare?
What if commercial source-available vendors stopped licensing their product under their source-available license and only offered a traditional commercial license? In my current research interviews on...
View ArticleIs AI killing open source?
tl;dr Nah, things keep changing, but if anything, AI only helps open source sharpen its profile as the way to go about collaboratively developing high-quality broadly-usable software. Those who were...
View ArticleFrom data to action: Building healthy and sustainable open source projects...
I’m happy to report that the 35th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. As always, please consider writing an article proposal! Title From data to action: Building...
View ArticleEnsuring syntactic interoperability using consumer-driven contract testing...
Abstract Integrating services in service-based architectures is a major concern and challenge to their developers. A key problem is that today’s compilers cannot ensure syntactic interoperability of...
View ArticleBalancing technology heterogeneity in microservice architectures [EMSE Journal]
Abstract Microservices are a popular architectural style that allows systems to be built from a potentially large number of microservices, all of which can be developed independently and by their own...
View ArticleOptions to have your open-source software and sustain it too
I’m just off (another) 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...
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