You can find me at Stormy’s Corner

Posted by Stormy Peters on October 30th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

As many of you know, I'm now working full time as the GNOME Foundation's Executive Director. From now on, I'll be blogging primarily on Stormy's Corner. Thanks for following me – I hope to see you at Stormy's Corner. For OpenLogic news, please make sure you're subscribed to the OpenLogic blog!

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Must haves: an open source strategy and policy

Posted by Stormy Peters on October 24th, 2008 in Governance

Every company should have an open source strategy and policy – or at least cover open source in their company's policy. Even if they don't use open source software, they should have a policy saying whether or not they could use open source or who would have to decide. Otherwise they'll end up wasting developer [...]

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Trust is earned … patch by patch

Posted by Stormy Peters on September 15th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

Matt Asay points out that it takes time and work to contribute to an open source software project. What suprised me was that he seems upset (or perhaps disappointed) that it's so hard for an outside person to contribute to an open source software project. First off, it's not hard to contribute small things. Small [...]

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How Do Open Source Installations Compare by Operating System?

Posted by Stormy Peters on September 11th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

[From the Open Source Census August newsletter.] In the previous newsletter we looked at the breakdown of Linux Distributions. Many people have since asked us how open source software compares across different operating systems like Linux, Windows, and Mac, so we decided to take a look at the average number of open source packages found by [...]

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Visualizing open source software

Posted by Stormy Peters on September 8th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

I uploaded some of the Open Source Census data into Many Eyes and I've been having great fun playing with the data. (You can play with it yourself.) Here are some of the visualizations I've created: Word map: Bubble map:

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Who’s going to pay for open source software?

Posted by Stormy Peters on September 5th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

This week theme has been "who's going to pay for open source?" It's shown up in a number of blogs, like Matt Asay's. In several blog posts he's said things like "Who will pay for open source in the future?" and "Someone has to pay for this stuff, and it's not going to be governments." [...]

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What webinar topics would you like to see?

Posted by Stormy Peters on August 29th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

Sam Dean posted a good list of places to find open source software related webinars, free webinars on free software. One of the resources is OpenLogic's archive of webinars. OpenLogic's webinars cover topics that are interesting to open source software users in the enterprise. Some of them we do ourselves but other times we bring [...]

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Are the best open source software applications being used?

Posted by Stormy Peters on August 28th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

InfoWorld put out their 2008 Best of Open Source Software Awards (BOSSIES) and SourceForge put out their Community Choice Awards. I thought it would be interesting to see how prevalant these products were in the Open Source Census findings. Not all the projects had fingerprints in Open Source Census so I just focused on those [...]

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Is it theft if the other person still has it?

Posted by Stormy Peters on August 26th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

Question: Is it theft if the other person still has it? Answer: It can be. However, in the evolution of the human species, this is a relatively new concept. You can steal software, songs, and wifi connections – but yet the other person still has their copy. I think this is why so many people [...]

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How to comply with the GPL and what to do if you get that letter …

Posted by Stormy Peters on August 21st, 2008 in Legal & Compliance

The Software Freedom Law Center has published a very detailed guide on how to comply with the GPL, A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance. It discusses everything from common violations to how to include source code to what to do if you get the dreaded "you are in trouble" letter. Worth a read for any [...]

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