Architecture is key, also for Free and Open Source Software No, I am not talking about software architecture only. For running a business it's important that systems, both business and IT are easy to maintain and adapt. The systems need also to be interoperabl...
Beehive Organization of a Free and Open Source Community In general, both businesses and people alike seem not to understand how an open source project is managed / organized. The fact that there is no company 'owning' the product, doesn't mean the project ...
EEE Embrace Extend Exterminate misuse of foss communities The Evolution of the Encounter, Engage, Exploit Model: From Microsoft to FOSS In the world of software development, understanding user behavior is crucial for creating effective products that meet t...
Free and Open Source Software != Business Model Free and Open Source Software != Business Model. When something is free, you are the product … right? While often true (Facebook, Instagram, Google), there are people who want to help others, who want...
Open Source Thrives Innovation How does Open Source stimulate Innovation? and betters Proprietary? To answer this question, we have to examine the definition of both Innovation and Open Source. Next, we need to get a good and clear...
AI License Infringement Could AI generated programming code be a possible infringement of software licenses? This question, I asked myself this morning, going through all kind of interesting news. To generate "new" stuff AI ...
Delusion Driven Data driven, Data management, Data Science, Big Data. Familiar with those terms. Everybody wants to have a data driven organization. But how can you achieve this, when your company uses all kind of pr...
The Datadriven Collapse of The Proprietary World The Data Driven collapse of the proprietary world. What do I mean with this? Since the seventies and eighties of the last century, organizations are building on their IT landscape. Often there was no ...
Scaling the Walls Scaling the Castle Walls A lot of people know the metaphor of the Cathedral and the Bazaar created by Eric Raymond in his book "Cathedral and the Bazaar" which is a book full of essays from his hand. ...
Children and programming We at OpenSource Science believe that every child should learn to code. We say this amidst the growing influence and power of AI. Furthermore, we know it's possible to code with AI, but who's going to...
Not Gratis From the beginning of the Free Software Foundation in 1983 it was always clear that Free software didn't mean you could use the software without paying for it. Free is not the same as Gratis. Free, me...