Open Source
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Software Development
Why Your IoT Product Strategy Needs to Include Open Source
For the last two years, I have been talking about why open source will be critical to the success of…
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The Caveats of Dual-Licensing
We’ve been in business for more than one year now with our dual-licensing strategy for jOOQ. While this strategy has…
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The “Free”, “Standard”, “Open” Software Heresy
There are those people that have a strong, dogmatic belief in what they call “Free” or “Standard” or “Open” software.…
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Open Source Projects – Between accepting and rejecting pull request
Lately I have done a lot of work for the sbt-native-packager project. Being a commiter comes with a lot of…
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Free as in Beer has caused Heartbleed (and Much More)
Heartbleed is a bit over one month old now. A bug significant enough to have its own Wikipedia page. Today,…
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OpenSource License Manager
What is a License Manager? License managers are used to enforce license rights, or at least to support the enforcement.…
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Open Source Completely Underestimates Contributor License Agreements
Reddit’s /r/ProgrammerHumor has recently treated us to this politically incorrect and quite childish little Open Source rant …
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Empathy in OSS – It’s Important
Spending nearly my entire working day (and many evenings) with Open Source projects I don’t maintain I have come to…
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An Open Source License to Increase Your Street Credibility
Many of us geeks don’t really care about users, tractions, etc. when we spam GitHub with our little toy projects.…
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