Tag Archives: open source

New release for Neubot, the Net Neutrality monitor

Posted on 20 May, 2011 by Stef

Neubot is a “software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet” in order to quantify network neutrality. The software is aresearch project on network neutrality of the NEXA Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino. The project … Continue reading →

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Choose a good license and manage well the community

Posted on 11 February, 2010 by Stef

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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Funambol asks EU to approve the Oracle+Sun deal

Posted on 3 December, 2009 by Stef

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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How To Mix Agile And Software Developed By A Community

Posted on 23 November, 2009 by Stef

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 →

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How To Evaluate Free Software Business

Posted on 14 November, 2009 by Stef

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 →

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Don’t call it Scrum

Posted on 9 April, 2009 by Stef

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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SCRUM and volunteer developers

Posted on 20 March, 2009 by Stef

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 →

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Cost saving is the wrong argument, but it may work

Posted on 22 January, 2009 by Stef

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 →

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Ritorno dal convegno “Open Source come modello di business”

Posted on 20 November, 2007 by Stef

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 →

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