Open Source Business

Articles on the topic of Open Source Business.

Cost Optimization Through Open Source Software
Differentiating Community from Customers in an F/LOSS Business
Best Practices in Multi-Vendor Open Source Communities
Open to Everyone: How Open Source Communities Can Benefit from Diversity Without Disunity
Making Money from Exploiting Schumpeterian Opportunities: John Sanguinetti and the Electronic Design Automation Industry
How Open Source Has Changed the Software Industry: Perspectives from Open Source Entrepreneurs
Open Invention Network: A Defensive Patent Pool for Open Source Projects and Businesses
A New Way of Measuring Openness: The Open Governance Index
Q&A. What Is the Secret of Red Hat's Success?
Q&A. What Are the Long-Term Effects of Open Source?
Editorial: Open Source Business (January 2012)
Editorial: Recent Research (November 2011)
Business Ecosystems as Institutions of Participation: A Systems Perspective on Community-Developed Platforms
Economics of Software Product Development Collectives
Editorial: Introducing the TIM Review (October 2011)
Benefits of the Community for Partners of Open Source Vendors
Anystone Technologies: Lessons from the First Year of a Mobile Applications Startup
Reflecting on Fifty Issues of the OSBR
Editorial: Miscellany (August 2011)
Introducing the Oregon State University Open Source Lab
Beyond Technology: Enabling Communities Through Social Interoperability
Lessons from an Open Source Business
Developing Silicon IP with Open Source Tools
Proving the Expertise of Freelance Android Developers
Control and Diversity in Company-led Open Source Projects
Editorial: Recent Research (February 2011)
Open Source License Selection in Relation to Business Models
How Firms Relate to Open Source Communities
Private-Collective Innovation: Let There Be Knowledge
Control in Open Source Software Development
Nokia's Hybrid Business Model for Qt
Editorial: The Business of Open Source (January 2011)
Editorial: Humanitarian Open Source (December 2010)
Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software
Developing a Service Industry to Support the Sahana Disaster Management System
IEEE Humanitarian Projects: Open Hardware for the Benefit of the Poorest Nations
Mifos: Ending Poverty with Software
Emerging Open Source Health Information Business Ecosystems in Resource-Poor Environments: the OpenMRS Experience
The Humanitarian FOSS Project
TriSano: Collaborating for the Good of Global Public Health
Editorial: Sales Strategy (2010)
Open Source Contributions as a Complement to Your Sales Strategy
Assessing Trust Between Members of a Marketplace
Editorial: Interdisciplinary Lessons (August 2010)
Integrating Lessons from Other Disciplines into Open Source Practice
Q&A. How is social network analysis used in studies of open source?
Editorial: Go To Market (July 2010)
Open Source Partner Strategy: Are Your Core Businesses Aligned?
Improving Product-Market Fit by Engaging an Open Source Community
Q&A. What business models are currently used with open source software?
Editorial: Growing Business (June 2010)
Growing Revenue with Open Source
Plumbing the Internet with PostgreSQL: An Open Source Case Study
Q&A. How do you make money with open source?
Inspired by Open Source and CEAs: The Future of Collaborative Healthcare Delivery in Canada
Communication Enabled Applications: What are the IP Considerations for Platform Providers?
Integrating the Power of Open Source Telephony with Web 2.0 Technology
Editorial: Cloud Services (April 2010)
Re-evaluating Open Source for Sustaining Competitive Advantage for Hosted Applications
Experiences From the OSSIE Open Source Software Defined Radio Project
The Open Source Mobile Cloud: Delivering Next-Gen Mobile Apps and Systems
The State of Free Software in Mobile Devices
Editorial: Mobile (March 2010)
Open is the New Closed: How the Mobile Industry uses Open Source to Further Commercial Agendas
Establishing and Engaging an Active Open Source Ecosystem with the BeagleBoard
Low Cost Cellular Networks with OpenBTS
CRC Mobile Broadcasting F/LOSS Projects
Editorial: Startups (February 2010)
The Business of Open: Common Pitfalls for Open Source Startups
An Open Source Solution for Startups
Editorial: Success Factors (January 2010)
How the FreeBSD Project's Processes Help Companies Build Products
Open Source User Assistance: Ensuring That Everybody Wins
Community 101
What's the Value of an Eyeball? Passive Participation in Open Source Ecosystems
Developing a Successful Open Source Training Model
Q&A. How can a community be considered "open source" if its primary objective is to promote commercialization?
Q&A. What lessons can "green" computing learn from open source?
Editorial: Value Co-Creation (November 2009)
Editorial: Business Intelligence (September 2009)
Business Intelligence: A Primer
Special Considerations for Business Intelligence Projects
Open Source: Shifting Buying and Evaluation Patterns of BI Users
Open Source BI: A Market Overview
Open Source BI Reporting Tool Review
Enabling Geospatial Business Intelligence
BIRT: Building Next Generation BI Using Open Source
Q&A. What will Oracle do with Sun’s open source offerings?
Editorial: Arts & Media (October 2009)
Opening the Source of Art
Developing a Portal for Open Source Creation: A Brief Study
Freely Licensed and Open Source Pipelines for Art Based Film and Media Production
Social Media and Open Source: Worlds Apart?
Economic Free Software Perspectives
Editorial: Collaboration (July 2009)
Social Actions: Making the Web More Philanthropic
Open Source Resources in Education: Opportunities and Challenges
A Model for Sustainable Student Involvement in Community Open Source
TellTable: Collaborative Work Using Single User Applications
Editorial: Women in Open Source (June 2009)
An International Look at Women in Open Source
The Human Factor in Open Source
Lessons on Community Management from the Open Source World
The 100-Mile Client Roster
Community-Built Software: What I Learned from Calagator
The GNOME Foundation Is All About People
BSD Advocacy and Breaking Through Market Barriers
Offline: Where Tech Communities Succeed With Women
So Are You A Contributor?: Women's Contributions to Linux and Open Source Span Technology and Business
Editorial: Open Source in Government
The Steady March of the European Penguins
Use of Open Source Software by the Brazilian Government
The Feds are Ready for a Change
Transparency in Government
Use of Moodle for Single Entry Portal at Riga Technical University
Editorial: Open APIs (April 2009)
An Introduction to Open APIs
Licensing of Open APIs
Using JavaScript Toolkits to Create Rich Internet Applications
Measuring Modularity in Open Source Code Bases
Torys Technology Law Speaker Series: Open Source Licenses and the Boundaries of Knowledge Production
Reassuring End Users Of Open Source: The OSGeo Example
Open Source Web Based Geospatial Processing with OMAR
Geospatial Primer: in Search of the Next "Killer App"
A RESTful Implementation of Geospatial Web Services
Editorial: Commercialization (Feburary 2009)
How Open Source Strengthens Business Models
How Companies Make Money Through Involvement in Open Source Hardware Projects
F/LOSS is Commercial Software
Government Transparency via Open Data and Open Source
Q&A. How can an individual or small business give back to an open source community?
Editorial: Geospatial (March 2009)
Geospatial: An Open Source Microcosm
Editorial: Enterprise Participation (January 2009)
Collaborative Software Development in the Enterprise
The Benefits to ISVs of Working with Large Enterprise Consumers on Open-Source Projects
The Arrival of the Mobile Internet Thanks to the Economics of Open Source Software
The Role of Consumers Within an Open Source Community
So You Wanna be a Linus Torvalds? The Do's and Don'ts of Running a Small Open Source Project
Creating Disruptive Value For Not-For-Profit Organizations Using Open Source
Driving Innovation Through Interoperability
Editorial: Enabling Innovation (December 2008)
Experiments, Expertise and Google Summer of Code (TM)
Omeka: Open Source Web Publishing for Research, Collections and Exhibitions
Power of Openness to Solve Textbook Access Problems
Social Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Editorial: Health and Life Sciences (November 2008)
The Emerging Role of Open Source in Healthcare
Developing an Open Source Reference Implementation of the Canadian Electronic Health Records Solution
Mirth: Standards-Based Open Source Healthcare Interface Engine
Open Health Tools: Tooling for Interoperable Healthcare
Open Source and Open Standards: Working Together for Effective Software Development and Distribution
Treasury of the iCommons: Reflections of a Commons Sourcing Lawyer
A Panamanian Initiative to Embrace the Future
Reducing Global Poverty and Disease with Community and Technology: An Open Source Perspective
TIM Lecture Series: OSGi and Server-Side Eclipse
TIM Lecture Series: A Practitioners Guide to Ecosystem Development
Editorial: Building Community (October 2008)
Contrasting Proprietary and Free/Open Source Game Development
Free and Open Source Licenses in Community Life
Open Source Software Foundations
Community Building: NetBSD in Hindsight
Open Source, Social Innovation and a New Economy of Engagement
Editorial: Education (August 2008)
OSS Spending Trends in Education
Why Give Knowledge Away for Free? The Case for Open Educational Resources
Hybrid Software Boosts High Performance Computing Productivity
Is Open Source Right for your Library?
Project Conifer
TIM Series: Theory, Evidence and the Pragmatic Manager
The Need for F/LOSS (Governance) Operations
TIM Series: Practicing Safe Software: Good Software Record
Q&A. Besides compliance, are there any business reasons for maintaining an accessible website?
Editorial: Accessibility (July 2008)
Sharing Information on the Semantic Web: The Reminiscence of an Old Legal Issue
Software Accessibility: Where Are We Today?
Editorial: Security (June 2008)
Open Source Vulnerability Database Project
Coverity Report
Security Hardening of Open Source Software
Language Insecurity
TIM Lecture Series: Building Technical Communities
The Canadian DMCA: A Betrayal
Q&A. Why use OSS, other than the licensing cost of the software?
Editorial: Enterprise Readiness (May 2008)
Making Open Source Ready for the Enterprise: The Open Source Maturity Model
Method for Qualification and Selection of Open Source Software
Open Source Software for Corporate IT
Q&A. Does lack of product management impact the users of open source?
TIM Lecture Series: The State of Open Source Software and Corporate Software
Editorial: Communications (April 2008)
Open Source Telecom
Open Hardware Business Models
Uses of Creative Commons Licenses
Editorial: Procurement (March 2008)
Free and Open Source Software: Overview and Preliminary Guidelines for the Government of Canada
The OpenTTT Approach
Open Source e-Procurement Software
Open Source in Canada's Public Sector
Q&A. Does the Google Summer of Code project provide any value to open source projects and the students who participate?
Editorial: Open Data (February 2008)
Data Access in Canada: CivicAccess.ca
How is Copyright Relevant to Source Data and Source Code?
Implementing Open Data: The Open Data Commons Project
The Personal Research Portal
Editorial: Interoperability (January 2008)
Open Source Interoperability: It's More than Technology
Ladder of Participation: Business Models for Peer Production
Open Carrier Grade Base Platform
Open Standards vs. Open Source: a Case of the OpenAccess Standard
Editorial: Clean Intellectual Property (December 2007)
Improving Application Development by Managing Licensing Issues
Ensuring Software IP Cleanliness
A Rallying Moment for Canadian Open Source Software
An Introduction to Rights Expression Languages
Key Changes to the GNU General Public License
Protecting Information Technology Property Rights
Enterprise Open Source Support
Special Considerations for Financial Services Firms
Supporting Not-for-Profits: an Opportunity for the Commons
Competitive Actions of Open Source Firms
Ensuring the Quality of Open Source Software
Conference Report: Open Education 2007
Editorial: Support (November 2007)
Editorial: Licensing (October 2007)
QNX Hybrid Software Model
Five Stage Approach to Licensing
Open Source Licensing in the Enterprise
Open Source on Trial
Comparing the BSD and GPL Licenses
Evolution of an Open Source Strategy
Free as in Adjective, Not as in Verb
Q&A. What effect do supply and a demand have on open source commercialization?
Defining Open Source
Open Source Assets
Open Hardware
Open Educational Resources
Open Source as Community
Q&A. What is the state of open source in public administration?
Editorial: Defining Open Source (September 2007)
Editorial: Business Models (August 2007)
Open Source Telecommunication Companies
Putting Maps on the Web with Open Source Technologies
Building an Open Source Company One Penguin at a Time
Keystone Organization for Ontario's Open Source Ecosystem
Company Interactions with Open Platforms
Adding Value to Information Systems Using Free Data
Eclipse: A Premier Open Source Community
TFN: Open Source and Innovation
Ontario Research Commercialization Program
Software Licensing
Q&A. How one can develop a business model around open source?
Editorial: Introducing the OSBR (July 2007)
Competitive Open Source

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