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Submission + - Why freeloaders are essential to FOSS project success (outercurve.org)

Submitted by dp619 on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @02:31PM

dp619 writes: Outercurve Foundation technical director Stephen Walli has written a blog post arguing that attracting users is fundamental to the ability of open source projects to recruit "new blood" and contributors who are willing to code. "So in the end, it's all about freeloaders, but from the perspective that you want as many as possible. That means you're “doing it right” in developing a broad base of users by making their experience easy, making it easy for them to contribute, and ultimately to create an ecosystem that continues to sustain itself," he wrote.

Submission + - Open Source Software seeping into the .NET Developer world (outercurve.org)

Submitted by dp619 on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @06:19PM

dp619 writes: In an interview, Microsoft Regional Director Patrick Hynds says that avoidance of open source components by a large part of the .NET developer population is abating. "...While some may still steer clear of the GPL, there are dozens of FOSS licenses that are compatible with Windows developers and their customers," he said. Hynds cites NuGet, an open source package management system was originally built by Microsoft and now an Outercurve Foundation project, as an example of FOSS libraries that .NET developer are adopting for their applications. Microsoft itself has embraced open source — to a point. It has partnered with Hortonworks for a Windows port of Hadoop, allowed Linux to run on Windows Azure, and is itself a Hadoop user.

Submission + - Developers key to managing patent risk (outercurve.org)

Submitted by dp619 on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @03:41PM

dp619 writes: Penn State law professor Clark Asay has written an editorial on FOSS patent risk, saying: "...under the current patent system, it’s entirely possible to obtain a patent that reads on software that FOSS communities independently create. Consequently, FOSS communities and their users are vulnerable to third party patent claims, even absent any sort of wrongdoing or copying on their part." He suggests that developers collaborate to prevent bad or frivolous patents from being issued in the first place. The ongoing work of Linux Defenders and Peer-to-Patent are cited as good examples of how the FOSS community's collaborative spirit can help it counteract potential legal threats.

Submission + - How open source could benefit academic research (outercurve.org)

Submitted by dp619 on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @03:15PM

dp619 writes: Ross Gardler, of Apache Fame, has written a guest post on the Outercurve Foundation blog advocating that universities accelerate the research process through a collaborative sharing and development of research software while examining reasons why many have been reluctant to publish their source code.

Submission + - Open Source Software Licenses versus Business Models (networkworld.com)

Submitted by dp619 on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @07:01PM

dp619 writes: Network World is running a guest article by Outercurve Foundation's technical director Stephen Walli discussing how FOSS license choice can affect a company’s business model. Walli disagrees that a FOSS license dictates the business model or that the business model dictates the license.

Submission + - Which Open Source Software License Should I Use? (outercurve.org)

Submitted by dp619 on Thursday January 03, 2013 @02:23PM

dp619 writes: Stephen Walli, the Outercurve Foundation's technical director, has published a guide for choosing open source licenses, which takes into consideration both legal considerations and project specific affinities.

Submission + - Making open source software (outercurve.org)

Submitted by dp619 on Monday December 10, 2012 @04:26PM

dp619 writes: Outercurve Foundation technical director Stephen Walli has posted a how-to guide, which is written for organizations that are thinking about making FOSS software either by contributing patches to existing products or starting a new project (from new or existing code). This is important, because many organizations are 'takers' of FOSS and do not contribute back into the commons. There's also the potential for a business benefit from starting a project. Topics range from picking a license to project management, the responsibilities of a project founder, and community management.

Submission + - How to build a better developer community (slashdot.org)

Submitted by dp619 on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @10:54PM

dp619 writes: It's incorrectly stated that Bacon is a part of GitHub; he is the Ubuntu community manager.

Submission + - How to build a better developer community (outercurve.org)

Submitted by dp619 on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @03:16PM

dp619 writes: Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon (of GitHub fame) and the OuterCurve Foundation have shared a blog postwith suggestions including how to choose an open source license, why governance processes should be simple, how to establish codes of conduct, why a community helps software evolve, and how to structure a project to provide an easy on ramp to participate. The overarching theme of the post is that the dynamic aspects of software development are lost if a project doesn’t fully embrace open source; communities don’t just automatically form around a license. A added benefit is that companies that consume open source can contribute back to the commons and gain from collaborative development.

Comment Re:Uh... (Score 1) 396

by dp619 on Monday December 12, 2011 @11:53AM (#38343428) Attached to: Goodbye Textbooks, Hello iPad

You obviously didn't read the story.

Comment wrong URL (Score 1) 1

by dp619 on Friday December 09, 2011 @10:17AM (#38314126) Attached to: Hello iPad; goodbye textbooks (and PCs)

The source URL is: http://technologizer.com/2011/12/09/goodbye-textbooks-hello-ipad/

Submission + - Hello iPad; goodbye textbooks (and PCs) (dzone.com) 1

Submitted by dp619 on Friday December 09, 2011 @10:12AM

dp619 writes: There's a technology shift happening in educations: PCs and paper are on the way out. iPads/tablets are helping kids with special needs and disabilities to learn, and are being incorporated into grade school classroom learning. College students are using them to save money on textbooks.

Submission + - 'Midori' concepts materialize in .NET (sdtimes.com)

Submitted by dp619 on Monday April 05, 2010 @10:03AM

dp619 writes: Concepts outlined in Microsoft's internal "Midori" OS documents are materializing in .NET, according to an SD Times report. Midori is a new operating system project that is designed for distributed concurrency. Microsoft has assigned some of its allstar programmers to the project, while recruiting others. It is also working on other projects to replace Windows that make the OS act more like a hypervisor.

Submission + - The Strange Story of Microsoft Bob (technologizer.com) 1

Submitted by harrymcc on Monday March 29, 2010 @10:29AM

harrymcc writes: Microsoft Bob--still synonymous in the tech industry with "embarrassing flop"--shipped fifteen years ago this week, on March 31st, 1995. When the Windows interface featuring animated cartoon helpers was announced it was hyped to the heavens and briefly accepted as a breakthrough that showed where software was going. Instead, dismal reviews and poor sales killed it after only a year on the market. At Technologizer, we're marking the anniversary with a complete look at how it came to be and why it failed so resoundingly--and how Microsoft tried again with Office's "Clippy" and other attempts to revive the basic idea.

Submission + - The future of Windows (technologizer.com)

Submitted by harrymcc on Monday March 08, 2010 @11:49AM

harrymcc writes: What can Microsoft do to keep Windows relevant in the years to come? Over at Technologizer, we asked that question of 28 pundits, technologists, and former Microsoft employees, including ex-Microsoft evangelist Robert Scoble, reporters Kara Swisher and Mary-Jo Foley, the editors of PCWorld and PCMag, analysts Tim Bajarin and Rob Enderle, writers for everything from USA Today to VentureBeat, the original author of Microsoft Word, and many more.

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