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29 Jan

Creating a successful community

Posted by aross

Sales revenues, service/consulting revenues, code contributions, downloads, user reported bugs, reading the financial documents of companies competing with open source are a few of the ways I can think of to objectively measure open source forces in the software industry. It's safe to say open source is a huge force in the industry. How did this come to be?

Obviously it's not easy to compete with the likes of IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft. And yet open source projects are doing so. They have been doing so for some time and some are even winning. What makes an open source project so successful?

Matt Assay had an excellent blog post summarizing a talk from John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla. Some of the key points that really jumped out at me include:

29 Jan

Short promo for Free/Open Source Mobile Development: An Introduction

Posted by aross

Challenges facing an Open Source desktop

Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by aross
Event: 
OAK01
Speaker: 
Matt Olander
28 Jan

Need to rethink economic theory to account for open source

Posted by aross

This article by Pavel Kamyshev and David Lee at the Yale Daily News discusses open source software and the need to expose Yale students to economic theories that can handle the existence of open source.

"Without knowing how to coexist and compete with open- and crowd-sourced alternatives, Yale students with backgrounds in traditional economics may have a nasty surprise in store"

"Yale’s Economics and Political Science departments need to devote more attention to these trends. A high-level economics elective is not enough."

See more:
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/27310