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Why Green Software should be FOSS

A couple of months ago, I witnessed the launch of the Green Software foundation in The Netherlands. While attending the meeting, I was slightly disappointed about two things: It was organized by a pro...

Jun 20, 2024

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Why is Open Washing a thing

Free and open source software is on the move. Foss works and it's getting more and more attention, and that is not always positive.So how can the growth of the Free and Open Source movement be negativ...

May 30, 2024

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PERSBERICHT Open Avond

Eerste internationale Vrije en Open Source Software opleider in Nederland van start inBreda en Tilburg Met de start van het nieuwe collegejaar 2024-2025 start OpenSource Science met een internationa...

May 25, 2024

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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...

May 23, 2024

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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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