Sunday, April 15, 2007
What makes an open source Project successful?
What makes an open source Project successful?
16 April 2007
Is the enthusiasm for open source software projects a "bubble" ready to burst and take the model down with it? That's what the CEO of one of the most successful open source projects thinks...
"Right now, open source is hot," said Rod Johnson, author of the Spring Java development framework and CEO of Interface21, the company he founded to market it. Most open source projects are supported by an army of volunteers who buy into the hype, but "capitalism will inevitably reassert itself" and developers will find they need to put more effort into steady jobs and private lives, leaving "open source zombies"--unsupported, unmaintained projects--he predicts.
But wait! All is not lost. In his opinion, while the majority of open source projects will fade into obscurity, companies and products that have the critical mass of customers, developers, and employees and financially viable business models could yet make the open source paradigm a force to reckon with.
Read this interesting article from IT News Australia
16 April 2007
Is the enthusiasm for open source software projects a "bubble" ready to burst and take the model down with it? That's what the CEO of one of the most successful open source projects thinks...
"Right now, open source is hot," said Rod Johnson, author of the Spring Java development framework and CEO of Interface21, the company he founded to market it. Most open source projects are supported by an army of volunteers who buy into the hype, but "capitalism will inevitably reassert itself" and developers will find they need to put more effort into steady jobs and private lives, leaving "open source zombies"--unsupported, unmaintained projects--he predicts.
But wait! All is not lost. In his opinion, while the majority of open source projects will fade into obscurity, companies and products that have the critical mass of customers, developers, and employees and financially viable business models could yet make the open source paradigm a force to reckon with.
Read this interesting article from IT News Australia
Labels: business-models, opinion, problems, trends
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Open Source Licensing: is StillSecure trying to redefine Open Source?
Open Source Licensing: is StillSecure trying to redefine Open Source? asks Roberto Galoppini in this April 4, 2007 post at his eponymous blog
Roberto believes that being compliant with OSI or FSF definitions should be mandatory if one wishes to call their products open source or free software...However, he finds that Cobia, StillSecure's security platform, does not strictly comply with OSI and in fact a StillSecure representative whose comments are included in the post appears to feel that compliance with OSI is not the most important issue as far delivering value to end users are concerned. Roberto, and a few others, would most likely beg to differ on that...
Interesting post, read the full discussion here
Roberto believes that being compliant with OSI or FSF definitions should be mandatory if one wishes to call their products open source or free software...However, he finds that Cobia, StillSecure's security platform, does not strictly comply with OSI and in fact a StillSecure representative whose comments are included in the post appears to feel that compliance with OSI is not the most important issue as far delivering value to end users are concerned. Roberto, and a few others, would most likely beg to differ on that...
Interesting post, read the full discussion here
Labels: compliance, it-security, opinion, osi
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