Comments on: Open Source Tools: more on HP’s FOSSology anf FOSSBazar http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/01/28/open-source-tools-more-on-hps-fossology-anf-fossbazar/ Where Free Software meets Businessequally critical of proprietary and open source myths,advocating software choice beyondmarketing and romanticism Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:32:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Roberto Galoppini http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/01/28/open-source-tools-more-on-hps-fossology-anf-fossbazar/#comment-240777 Roberto Galoppini Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:32:28 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/01/28/open-source-tools-more-on-hps-fossology-anf-fossbazar/#comment-240777 Hi Ross, it is always a pleasure to receive your feedback! Dana is right saying that (medium to large) enterprises need their own internal network of engineers and programmers, but this can hardly be the first step. I see HP now offering services previously offered only by small open source firms, and that is good. The FOSS market need more momentum, and HP can greatly help the process, changing open source perception by large customers. As I wrote I see also some space to offer value added services, license compliance it is just one of them. Hi Ross,

it is always a pleasure to receive your feedback!

Dana is right saying that (medium to large) enterprises need their own internal network of engineers and programmers, but this can hardly be the first step. I see HP now offering services previously offered only by small open source firms, and that is good. The FOSS market need more momentum, and HP can greatly help the process, changing open source perception by large customers.

As I wrote I see also some space to offer value added services, license compliance it is just one of them.

]]> By: Ross Turk http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/01/28/open-source-tools-more-on-hps-fossology-anf-fossbazar/#comment-240602 Ross Turk Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:31:10 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/01/28/open-source-tools-more-on-hps-fossology-anf-fossbazar/#comment-240602 Hey Roberto! Thanks for writing about this story. Over here at SF.net, we've been talking with the FOSSology team for a while now, and we're committed to helping them in any way we can. I'm actually looking forward to meeting them face-to-face during the upcoming season of trade shows to talk about our path forward. I think that the location of open source code in a large, heterogeneous codebase is of high importance to everyone involved. From my perspective, this isn't necessarily proof that companies should fear open source technology, as Dana Blankenhorn suggests (http://tinyurl.com/2xu8q9). This doesn't have to be seen as an intrusion detection system for wicked alien code. Instead, I think this should be seen as a tool that companies can use to be well-educated on the license requirements of any code they utilize, so they can respect them and act accordingly. I also think it's more than a little bit cool that open source code is of such tremendous usefulness that engineers are consistently taking advantage of it to "get the job done"...so much so that it compels business owners to consider the various legal implications. I believe, as Phil does, that providing tools to help business owners better understand just how valuable open source code is to their business will be a good community investment. Thx, Ross Hey Roberto! Thanks for writing about this story. Over here at SF.net, we’ve been talking with the FOSSology team for a while now, and we’re committed to helping them in any way we can. I’m actually looking forward to meeting them face-to-face during the upcoming season of trade shows to talk about our path forward.

I think that the location of open source code in a large, heterogeneous codebase is of high importance to everyone involved. From my perspective, this isn’t necessarily proof that companies should fear open source technology, as Dana Blankenhorn suggests (http://tinyurl.com/2xu8q9). This doesn’t have to be seen as an intrusion detection system for wicked alien code.

Instead, I think this should be seen as a tool that companies can use to be well-educated on the license requirements of any code they utilize, so they can respect them and act accordingly.

I also think it’s more than a little bit cool that open source code is of such tremendous usefulness that engineers are consistently taking advantage of it to “get the job done”…so much so that it compels business owners to consider the various legal implications. I believe, as Phil does, that providing tools to help business owners better understand just how valuable open source code is to their business will be a good community investment.

Thx,
Ross

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