Author: Dirk Riehle

You may have been reading Matt Aslett's analysis of the trend to permissive licensing as well Gordon Half's discussion of this trend. I enjoyed reading them and agree with the overall trend. I don't quite agree with the predicted downfall of Copyleft licenses, though, and I love the irony of it. ...

The 2011 AMOS project, "Free Seas Ahoy!", is well under way. Below you can get an impression from a sprint planning session. Enjoy! And if you want to know more about this type of project, check out the AMOS project concept paper (in German).

This semester has an all-time high of industry speakers supporting the Open Source Research Group in its teaching. Here is the current line-up: Rainer Pausch of WeWebU on "Strategic Product Management" (PROD) Anja Schwarz of Sophist on "Technical Product Management" (PROD, upcoming) Holger D...

A bit belated, but here a list of industry speakers who enriched the Open Source Research Group teaching in its first three semesters: Martin Lippert (then) of IT-Agile on "Agile Software Architecture" (PSWT, WS 2009/10) Christof Wittig (then) of Servo Software on "The db4o Business Plan" (FIR...

Today, in the Product Management seminar we teach at FAU, we had our first industry speaker talk about his work. Our big thank you goes out to Dr. Rainer Pausch of Herzogenaurach's WeWebU for discussing the breadth and depth of his work as head of products, ECM software, at this innovative single-ve...

Today at "the Firm", the seminar we teach on how software product firms work, was product presentation time. Things were led on by lecturer Stefan Probst, followed by the three student teams, each presenting an elaborated version of the business idea that made the cut earlier this semester. Please g...

Abstract (from introduction):  Diese Bachelorarbeit soll sich der Aufgabe annehmen, Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede von Open-Source-Vereinigungen in einem Vergleichsschema zusammenzuführen. Hierfür werden zunächst sechs Open-Source-Vereinigungen analysiert und daraus relevante Vergleichsdimens...

Abstract: Open source software offers great chances in software development through cost savings and shorter time to market. Open source software is used by companies - in some cases consciously, in others unconsciously, which puts its implications on the business. This thesis deals with these ...

Abstract: Die Wikipedia hat das Ziel, eine global verfügbare, freie Informationsquelle in Form eines Online-Lexikons zu erstellen. Freiwillige aus der ganzen Welt erstellen und kategorisieren kollaborativ neue Artikel, prüfen, aktualisieren und verbessern bestehende Artikel. Diese Änderungen er...

Our offer to the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedia (technical) community is this: Come up with a new and better Wikitext and use the Sweble Wikitext parser to convert old Wikipedia content to that new format. Naturally, the new Wikitext format should work well with visual editors etc. We have s...