Software Research and the Industry

Commercial open source firms go to market trying to create an “unfair” competitive advantage that lets them win customers more easily than their competitors. So do most other companies. Commercial open source firms do this by bypassing the traditional purchasing process by getting their software into customer companies for free, before the customers even know [...]

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Markus Völter of the Software Engineering Radio podcast show interviewed me about open source business models. Why not listen to the Open Source Business Model podcast while running rather than reading it as papers on my website?

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As a researcher, imprecise naming bothers me. The general confusion around the terms commercial open source, professional open source, and community open source warrants closer analysis.
First my proposal, then some litmus tests, followed by a bit of history.

Commercial open source is software provided as open source where a single legal entity owns the rights [...]

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I’m a founding member and associate editor of the International Journal of Open Source Software & Processes. Please consider submitting a paper to this new journal, call for papers appended.
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Journal of Open Source Software & Processes (IJOSSP)
An Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association - New in 2009
www.igi-global.com/ijossp
Editor-in-Chief: Stefan Koch, Vienna [...]

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Title: JUnit 3.8 Documented Using Collaborations
Authors: Dirk Riehle
Keywords: JUnit 3.8 Documentation
Abstract: This paper describes the design of the unit testing framework JUnit v3.8. The documentation technique employed is an enhanced version of collaboration-based design, also known as role modeling. In collaboration-based design, objects are viewed as playing multiple roles in different contexts, and different contexts [...]

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