Home - Open Source Initiative

Links - Software Patents

billb — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:17:52 -0600

Oct 5 2009: Red Hat Asks Supreme Court To Nix Software Patents. The range of comments is also interesting.

Making a Living from Open Source Software

billb — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:00:11 -0700

Updated March 20 2009:

The best and most complete survival guide for serious open source development is Producing Open Source Software - How to Run a Successful Free Software Project. It is free, comes in various formats, is full of useful advice and best practices for open source developers. It is even well-organized and well-written.

Now you've got all the tools necessary for success in open source, what are you waiting for ? A product idea, perhaps ? ;-)

Links- Commerical Open Source Software

billb — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:07:59 -0700

Feb 19 2009: added MoinMoin bounties.
Note from Nov 25 2008: Apparently, making a living from Open Source is a big subject whose time has arrived, if the number of hits on this page is any indication. This section will grow and may split in the coming months.

Link - A More Inclusive Community-Based Model for Squeak Development

billb — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:29:40 -0600

A very thoughtful analysis of the Squeak community and its future, written in 2004.

Links- Open Source / Open Content Initiative

billb — Thu, 03 May 2007 15:02:51 -0600

OReily - Open Source Open Content Paradigm Shift

" ... the open source story is far from over, and its lessons far from completely understood. Rather than thinking of open source only as a set of software licenses and associated software development practices, we do better to think of it as a field of scientific and economic inquiry, one with many historical precedents, and part of a broader social and economic story".