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Buddy Dirk Riehle from SAP research has published an interesting paper on The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives. I agree with his approach that only an analysis of each stakeholder's specific perspective can identify the different incentives that drive the economics of open source.  The basic underlying ...

Buddy Dirk Riehle from SAP research has published an interesting paper on The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives. I agree with his approach that only an analysis of each stakeholder's specific perspective can identify the different incentives that drive the economics of open source.  The basic underlying ...

I had the honor to be invited as a speaker to FOSS.IN, India's premier open source conference, which takes place this weekend in Bangalore.  Atul Chitnis and his team brought together this exiting event in a country where open source is still not as much a part of the software culture as it is in the Western world or in China. It's mostly ...

I had the honor to be invited as a speaker to FOSS.IN, India's premier open source conference, which takes place this weekend in Bangalore.  Atul Chitnis and his team brought together this exiting event in a country where open source is still not as much a part of the software culture as it is in the Western world or in China. It's mostly ...

Marten has compiled a nice list of 13 hybrid business models with open source in this blog: ''1. Software is free but we need donations and subsidies to survive (Apache Software Foundation, Eclipse, ObjectWeb) 2. Software is free but we sell ads and placements (Mozilla) 3. Software is free but if you embed it ...

Marten has compiled a nice list of 13 hybrid business models with open source in this blog: ''1. Software is free but we need donations and subsidies to survive (Apache Software Foundation, Eclipse, ObjectWeb) 2. Software is free but we sell ads and placements (Mozilla) 3. Software is free but if you embed it ...

http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/21009 Open source software can help manage large software projects of globally distributed, individual contributors with virtually no management overhead. As open source blends more and more with the commercial software industry, this property of the open source phenomenon, which I will refer to as ...

http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/21009 Open source software can help manage large software projects of globally distributed, individual contributors with virtually no management overhead. As open source blends more and more with the commercial software industry, this property of the open source phenomenon, which I will refer to as ...

Jagdish Baghwati calls Tom Friedman's concept of a flat world ''wrong'' in a contribution towards today's WSJ's opinion page. He, instead, puts forward the concept of ''kaleidoscopic comparative advantages.'' A good read and I have to think about it. However, some things immediately spring to my mind: He talks about the comparative advantage ...

Every once in a while there are these books that just nail it down. Tom Friedman's ''The World is Flat'' is one of these books. I had the great pleasure to meet Tom at the TieCon 2005 in San Jose in May and have rushed to buy and read his book since. The core of the book is about ''Globalization 3.0'', a new phase in history where individuals ...