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”.
Continue reading ‘OSI: The Open Source Road Ahead’
Everyone seems to have an opinion on the open core debate, and a popular opinion seems to inflict some sort of excommunication to anyone having a less than pure open source monetization process. Therefore I thought that I would add some unsolicited input to this matter.
Now, what is a pure open source monetization process? Continue reading ‘Open to the core - The pragmatic freedom’
“Open Core is the New Dual Licensing Model” is the last of a chain of interesting posts against or in favor of open core, coming from different realm of experience: the analyst guy Stephen O’Grady, the free software evangelist Simon Phipps, the hacker Brian Aker and last but not least the entrepreneur Mårten Mickos.
Let’s dig now deeper into what is open core to business, and why it is not a business model. Continue reading ‘Open Core is not a Business Model’
Zenoss, the provider of open source network, systems and applications management software, with its Zenoss Masters program - aimed at recognizing the contributions of outstanding members of the Zenoss Community - this week awarded Jane Curry of Skills 1st.
While at the Open Source Think Tank I met again Mark Hinkle, VP Community at Zenoss, and I asked him to tell me more about the Zenoss community days and about Zenoss unique selling points.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Monitoring: Zenoss Community and Zenoss Unique Selling Proposition, an interview with Mark Hinkle’
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