Improving velocity of code contributions in open source (Zaks et al., IEEE...
I’m happy to report that the 29th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Improving velocity of code contributions in open source Keywords Open Source, Open Source...
View ArticleThe societal value of commercial open source
The heat about recent relicensing in open source land has dissipated a bit. To recap in a nutshell what had people riled up: Venture-capital-backed startups increasingly went to market by providing...
View ArticleA plea for an open source cloud copyleft license
Is the AGPL-3.0 (or-later) license an effective cloud copyleft license? Does it do the trick of keeping community open source free and the competition away from commercial open source? I tried getting...
View ArticleFree and open-source software [Computer Magazine]
I’m happy to report that the 30th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. With this article, I’m turning to open source fundamentals which I’ll write about if there is no...
View ArticleThe prisoner’s dilemma of open-source software security (Koch, IEEE Computer)
I’m happy to report that the 31st article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title The prisoner’s dilemma of open-source software security Keywords Open Source Software,...
View ArticleThe OPEN_Source-Initiative and the hyphen
Wikipedia is where linguists go when they are bored. So they long settled that it is “open source” (if used standalone) and “open-source software” (if open-source is a modifier/attribute to a noun)....
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