“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
Jim Jagielski, Simon Phipps and Mark Radcliffe at OSBC unveiled OSI plan during the ”A New OSI for a New Decade: Rebooting the Open Source Initiative OSI” session (presentation). Some reports stressed the importance of organizations, but volunteers are welcome too!
In Simon words:
Continue reading ‘The Open Source Road Ahead: Individuals matter’
Few days after my blog post about OSI’s possible future, OSI wrote a second statement on the CPTN transaction, somehow reaffirming my concerns about a maybe too narrowed view on software patents. Now that even Groaklaw gave up with software patents - rightly in my opinion - leaving it to IT giants and patent-trolls, will OSI fight software patents as a whole?
While waiting to understand how OSI will behave in this respect, we might move on other topics, like how OSI could fulfill its mission.
Continue reading ‘The Open Source Road Ahead - About Put an End to Vendor Lock-in’
Having been interviewed recently, among other topics, about my take on how FSF and OSI might rethinking their roles in the next future, I want to share some thoughts around how OSI could move in the years to come.
Changing OSI is now possible, and I am personally taking the chance by joining the OSI Governance working group, chaired by Simon Phipps. While the future governance of the OSI is still under discussion, here I’d like to throw some ideas around on what OSI could do about things like raising funds, software patents and “Open Core”.
I have been rarely playing the prediction game in the past, but now that Red Hat finally seems to fulfill my old predictions - also in the cloud - it is time to join Bob Sutor and others to play again.
Open Source and the Cloud.
Open source is now the maturity phase, and it is interesting to look at how compares open source and cloud computing (courtesy of Google Insight for search).
But the open source world is not so small, looking at the same graph for different European countries makes a difference. While France looks at the cloud as much as North-Americans do, other countries (like Italy) are lagging behind (see also EC2 statistics).
Commercial Open Source blog is yet another year older, and it is time to zoom back once more and look at things happened during the fourth year of its live.
SOS Open Source has been my primary focus over the last year. I have been using my methodology to help customers, make available reports for vendors and also to qualify and select open source e-commerce applications. Stay tuned for more reports, the very next will be around open source monitoring.
Conferencing. Over the last year I have been keynoting at Novell and Red Hat events, organizing a series of events around open source for IBM (more to come), chairing the Analysts session at OWF, as well as giving speeches and managing round-tables discussions at cloud computing events.
EU-funded open source projects. Having been invited by the EU to bring my perspective around EU-funded open source projects’ sustainability, I started to share tips and hints about online dissemination. Of course I didn’t stop to look at existing projects, and I look forward to share more findings about some of them.
Last but not least I wish to thank my webmaster Matteo Ionescu for his great job.
Open innovation is taking over in many areas, and open source plays an important role especially in software sequential innovation, where each successive invention builds in an essential way on its predecessors. Foremost, for the most of us before anything else software (open source included) is a tool towards a goal.
Continue reading ‘The Open Source Innovation Backbone for Startups’
James Dixon - Pentaho Chief Technology Officer - about two years ago wrote the “Beekeeper model“, telling the word about how open source firms writing the majority of the code make business.
Now James released the first draft of the new version asking for comments, and I am glad to give him some feedback again.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Business Strategy: Feedback on the Beekeeper Model Revisited’
Few days ago I joined the open source vendor debate remarking the importance of resolving the name confusion in favor of customers, and Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile shout-out saying that open core offers best opportunity for community and commercial Success.
Lines blurring between open source and proprietary vendors apparently invigorate the debate. I want to take the chance here to classify production model in function of the nature of firm-community relationship.
The lack of open source vision by the Italian government, along with attention paid by Obama to open source, brought my attention back to the importance Open Source Governance.
I want to strive for open source adoption by national and local governments. I want to take the opportunity here to share some thoughts about why a FOSS governance is needed, and how we could accomplish the goal to use open source software to develop innovative initiatives.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Governance: State of the Art and Lesson Learnt in Italy (part III)’
First Monday - the famous peer-reviewed journal - recently published an interesting paper on open source collaboration in the US Public Sector, resulting probably one of the first research covering open source governance in the public sector.
Before commenting its findings and see how and if they could be applied to the Italian situation, I wish to end to recap issues raised during the “Open Source Governance” held in Rome last October.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Governance: State of the Art and Lesson Learnt in Italy (part II)’
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