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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 ...

May 15, 2024

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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 the...

May 9, 2024

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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...

May 2, 2024

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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 ...

Apr 26, 2024

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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 ...

Apr 19, 2024

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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...

Apr 17, 2024

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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 ...

Apr 17, 2024

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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. ...

Apr 17, 2024

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Children and programming

Growing up in the seventies, I experienced the growth of electronic interconnected devices. I grew up in the age of man, when electronic devices were not yet controlling our lives. Of course, we had a...

Apr 17, 2024

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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...

Apr 17, 2024

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