So we all know that most open source projects are licensed under the GPL – Ken Krugle's graph shows that clearly over 75% of projects are GPL or LGPL – but it turns out that most open source software used by enterprises are not licensed under the GPL … companies are using primarily Apache licensed [...]
Read More »One of the most common questions we get is about how the OpenLogic support model works. People that hear about it are often curious about how we can provide support for 300+ open source software projects. I think most people are used to the standard commercial open source support model, where a company owns many [...]
Read More »Paul Duvall has an interesting post about rewarding your lazy programmers – the ones that write good interfaces, abstractions and easy to support code. They are good programmers because they are so lazy they don't want to have to support the code or help others figure it out so they write their code well the [...]
Read More »A couple of days ago the Software Freedom Law Center filed the first GPL violation lawsuit in the US. Basically they are saying that Monsoon Multimedia is shipping GPL software without the source code (or an offer for the source code.) You can read about it: The SFLC’s press announcement, The filing itself, Lots of [...]
Read More »People that work from home know that every once in a while there are some unique challenges like dogs barking or the door bell ringing. Today I encountered a new one. My dog started snoring during the conference call. How exactly do you explain that one?
Read More »Anyone interested in how outsourcing, the internet and open source software have change the world should read the first few chapters of Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. He gives a really good anecdotal history of how the internet and open source have changed how we work. I [...]
Read More »The Linux Foundation has announced two Legal Summits for open source software, a place for attorneys to get together to discuss the legal aspects of open source software. Since there are a lot of legal concerns around open source and the legal talks at open source software conferences are always very popular, I think it's [...]
Read More »So, I swing by a Starbucks on my way into the office this morning and pick myself up a latte. Nothing out of the ordinary yet. Now comes the odd part. This lady behind me (who I had noticed walking from a table outside where her husband was sitting with their Dachshund – important [...]
Read More »If you like seeing how things are connected, you should check out some of TouchGraph's products. You can explore the connections between webpages, books on Amazon or even your friends on Facebook. Add the TouchGraph application to your FaceBook profile and you can see not only how you are connected to your friends but how [...]
Read More »I rarely ( read never ) blog about other blogs.. that seems so … plagiaristic … to me. But, I caught this from the O'Reilly feed, and jumped to the link. It is a youtube video on Startup Metrics. I have no original thoughts about it, other than to say it is good listening / [...]
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