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 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...
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...