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Why does an Open Source approach not work in (most) companies?
Open Source communities are amazing. Never experienced such a helpful and dedicated environment anywhere else. Despite scratching their own itches Open Source minded people tend to teach, answer and...
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Github – It’s all about the hub, baby!
Following a tweet of Pierre Joye yesterday I happened to stumble about Mikael Rogers blog post called “Apache considered harmful“. It’s not about the Apache server but the Apache Software Foundation,...
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Infrastructure? Mash it up!
Just like yesterdays post about github todays post is inspired by the post “Apache considered harmful” only this time its about the availability of tools and how this helps to focus on the job. The...
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The dark side of applying Open Source mechanisms to a corporate environment
I wrote about what companies can learn from the Open Source world before and why it wouldn’t work in some cases. I think there is a lot to leverage when you apply the Open Source mechanisms to your...
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Stopping the dilution of the meaning of Open Source
I stumbled upon this post by Matthew Butterick called Seven essential qualities of open source. In it Matthew tries to fight the dilution of the term Open Source by defining what he sees as the seven...
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Its zero-responsibility principle is the key to the success of Open Source
Open Source software is provided free of charge which is great. And usually you get nice and friendly people helping you when you experience problems with their software. But the support not reliable....
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Catching Opportunities with Open Source – Part 2
On June 5th and 6th just right before the Symfony Live conference in Paris there is the Forum PHP conference in Paris as well. It includes some great speakers like Rasmus Lerdorf and a lot more. I’m...
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How to handle negative feedback in Open Source
Yesterday I had the pleasure of doing a conference talk at Forum PHP in Paris teaming up with Stefan Koopmanschap. We did this talk before on Symfony Day about opportunities in Open Source...
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When should you Open Source an API?
Another question following Stefans and my talk was when to open source an API asked by @xavismeh. How soon should you go public especially with an API which will be seen and used not only by normal...
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What Open Source is to me
When I did my talk at ForumPHP in Paris a couple of days ago together with Stefan Koopmanschap I realized again that my definition of Open Source is much wider than most people would think. In my view...
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