Mai 10, 2013
I think this is self-evident to the human reader. From an email I got:
Your interesting published article “Erratum to: The single-vendor commercial open source business model” drives me to call for new papers and honorary reviewer, on behalf of Computer Communication & Collaboration, which is an English quarterly journal in Canada.
Oh well… And I’m...
Mai 9, 2013
7th International Workshop on Foundations and Techniques for Open Source Software Certification (OpenCert 2013), Monday 23 September 2013, Madrid, Spain,
http://opencert.iist.unu.edu, at the 11th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2013), September 25-27, 2013, Madrid, Spain, http://antares.sip.ucm.es/sefm2013Context / Objectives...
April 28, 2013
Wikipedia is currently embroiled in a debate on sexism (local copy), because of classifying female American novelists as “American Women Novelists” while leaving male American novelists in the more general category “American Novelists”, suggesting a subordinate role of female novelists. I find this...
April 13, 2013
Abstract: Every open source project needs to decide on an open source license. This decision is of high economic relevance: Just which license is the best one to help the project grow and attract a community? The most common question is: Should the project choose a restrictive (reciprocal) license or a more permissive one? As an important step towards answering this question, this paper analyses actual license choice and correlated project growth from ten years of open...
Abstract: Commercial open source software has become an important part of the packaged software product industry. This paper provides a model of individual product features, rather than full-fledged business models, and their perceived value to customers. The model is the result of a three-iteration study, including interview analysis, literature review and the implementation of an empirical survey. Companies can use the feature model to determine their products and...
März 30, 2013
Please consider participating in the Open Commons Kongress, OC13, in Linz, Austria (I’m on the advisory board.) More information below (in German). [DR]
OC13 – Open Commons Kongress
14.05.2013, 9:00 – 16:30 Uhr
Wissensturm Linz, Austria
Lernen und Leben mit digitalen Gemeingütern
Zum zweiten Mal veranstaltet die Johannes Kepler Universität Linz und die Open Commons Region Linz...