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Radical Open Source – Economics

A long time ago I wrote my first post on Radical Openness.

I promised to post something more about the Economics lying behind the Radical Openness approach, even though it is  quite a challenge for me. As both an industrial IT manager and a representative of open source communities, when dealing with open source projects I’m on the borderline between looking for their prompt success – based also on  monetary returns to grant their sustainability – and maintaining a radical open approach.… Read the rest

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People innovate creating value for people

I have recently had the opportunity to read the proceedings of ITEMS Global Forum 2012.

How nice to run into other people’s thoughts and posts on which I agree. That’s a good way to reduce my efforts when writing new posts!

I’m referring to the following two presentations:

1) John G. Jung, Chairman and Co-Founder, Intelligent Community Forum – ICF, USA about Intelligent Communities: Platforms to Grow Innovation.

2)  Michael Stankosky, Research Professor George Washington University – GWU, USA about Strategies for Open Innovation.… Read the rest

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Open Source Strategies for the Enterprise

Last week, during my flight to Paris, I finally had the chance to read Simon Phipps’ book entitled  Open Source Strategies for the Enterprise.

Buy it. Great value at zero price!

I read it quite fast because I already knew its main contents: in fact, the book is a rational selection of Simon’s posts that you can find in the wild webmink blog. Nothing new to me, considering that I generally agree on many of Simon’s assertions.… Read the rest

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No price, no value?

Some days ago I posted “Buy less, spend better”, highlighting one of the main benefits of adopting SpagoBI suite or, in general terms, of choosing an open source product adopting the pure open source delivery model.

Now you can argue that a product with no price has no value either. If you believe it, a short SpagoBI presentation will give you some answers.

No price doesn’t mean no value.… Read the rest

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Radical Open Source – Licensing

I’ve already posted something about this here.

Now, I’ll go straight to the point!

Proliferation of Open Source licenses is a complete mess, despite initial good intentions (anyway, not all open source licenses are used to foster openness of code and collaboration).

Why so many licenses? Many reasons! (the list of open source licenses here just takes into consideration the OSI approved ones!). Now, are authoritative organizations (including OSI) ready (or willing) to foster a convergence of the existing licenses to one single (or to very few) simplified licenses?… Read the rest