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Choose a good license and manage well the community
Some of the things that Mike Tienman said in this interview with InternetNews.com I could have said myself. I have come to believe that a license alone is neither a secret to success nor an absolution of sin. Exactly: choosing … Continue reading
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Tagged business, community, free software, licensing, open source
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Funambol asks EU to approve the Oracle+Sun deal
I was very concerned when DG Competition announced that they needed to take more time to investigate the merger of Oracle and Sun because of MySQL. The deal for me seemed not only natural for business reasons, but also naturally … Continue reading
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Tagged acquisition, business, deal, free software business, funambo., merger, open source, oracle, sun
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How To Mix Agile And Software Developed By A Community
Back from Italian Agile Day where Stefano Fornari of Funambol with Marco Abis of Sourcesense animated a debate about mixing Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) and Agile development methods. I used to think that there was no issue because, after … Continue reading
Posted in community, eng, funambol
Tagged agile, codesniper, community, development, floss, free software, funambol, iad, incentives, open source, scrum
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How To Evaluate Free Software Business
There are many companies making money with Free/Open Source Software and it’s still not easy to identify a free software company. I’ve always advocated to put respect of customers’ needs and ethics in digital society as one of the crucial … Continue reading
Posted in business, community, eng
Tagged ethics, free software buisiness, open source, phipps, scorecard
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Don’t call it Scrum
Gianugo Rabellino has given me more food for thoughts about my research on Free/Libre Open Source software development and Agile/Scrum methods. His latest post contains a sentence that summarizes my key finding so far: At the end of the day, … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, community, development, floss, funambol, open source, openscrum, scrum
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SCRUM and volunteer developers
Funambol engineering team uses the SCRUM methodology to develop software. It’s a very interesting method that seems highly compatible with free/libre open source software development habits. It mandates fast release cycles (like the release early/release often mantra), teams that can … Continue reading
Posted in community, funambol
Tagged agile, community, development, floss, funambol, open source, openscrum, scrum
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Cost saving is the wrong argument, but it may work
Scott Mc Nealy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has been asked by the new Obama administration to prepare a paper about ‘open source’. From what I read on the BBC report, though, he is using a tired losing proposition: The secret … Continue reading
Ritorno dal convegno “Open Source come modello di business”
Ieri ho partecipato alla tavola rotonda dopo il convegno Open Source come modello di business da cui sono rientrato poco impressionato: mi sembrava tutto troppo 1.0, già visto. Non mi hanno impressionato le ricerche presentate da un dottorando di ingegneria, … Continue reading
Posted in business, it
Tagged business, conferenza, floss, free software business, open source
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