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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 ...

It always takes a while to realize that you are freed, once chains have been taken off.  But now individuals at db4objects incl. myself start to realize that the 'flat world' model which enables our distributed and extremely global business model also enables, yes, encourages each one of us to assess whether there's a point in hanging out in ...

It always takes a while to realize that you are freed, once chains have been taken off.  But now individuals at db4objects incl. myself start to realize that the 'flat world' model which enables our distributed and extremely global business model also enables, yes, encourages each one of us to assess whether there's a point in hanging out in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Interesting article on Baidu in the NYT today on the significance of China, which, as the world's fast growing (large) economy, is seen as the next great Internet battleground -- an analysis in line with ours.I'm very happy with the progress we have made in Greater China since we stepped up our activities in early August, when we signed up with ...

Interesting article on Baidu in the NYT today on the significance of China, which, as the world's fast growing (large) economy, is seen as the next great Internet battleground -- an analysis in line with ours.I'm very happy with the progress we have made in Greater China since we stepped up our activities in early August, when we signed up with ...