Tag Archives: Open Source

Today there was great news in the JVM ecosystem. Pivotal, the company who is committed to OSS has become a bit less committed: The reaction in the community were largely summarised by the hashtag #jesuisgroovy: Je suis groovy #groovylang — jbaruch (@jbaruch) January 19, 2015 The interesting part in Pivotal’s announcement is this one: The decision to conclude its sponsorship ...

For the last two years, I have been talking about why open source will be critical to the success of the Internet of Things.  The current state of IoT/M2M is a lot of propriertary platforms and protocols. This can’t last and won’t win in the long term. This week during a webinar about the new Vorto IoT project from Bosch, ...

We’ve been in business for more than one year now with our dual-licensing strategy for jOOQ. While this strategy has worked very well for us, it has also been a bit of a challenge for some of our customers. Today, we’re going to show you what caveats of dual-licensing we’ve run into. Our dual-licensing strategy For those of you not ...

There are those people that have a strong, dogmatic belief in what they call “Free” or “Standard” or “Open” software. One of those individuals is Jimmie (let’s call him Jimmie in this article) who has responded to an article about Java persistence by Marco Behler on TheServerSide. Let me cite Jimmie’s response here:           JPA is ...

Lately I have done a lot of work for the sbt-native-packager project. Being a commiter comes with a lot of responsibilities. You are responsible for the code quality, supporting your community, encouraging people to contribute to your project and of course providing an awesome open source product. Most of the open source commiters will probably start out as a contributor ...

Heartbleed is a bit over one month old now. A bug significant enough to have its own Wikipedia page. Today, we’re going to look into how wrong we have been in assuming that Open Source software is more secure than commercial software, because of our thinking that source code is open and that many developers are looking into it.   ...

What is a License Manager? License managers are used to enforce license rights, or at least to support the enforcement. When you develop an open source program, there is no much you need to or can do to enforce license rights. The code is there and if anyone just wants to abuse the program there is nothing technical that could ...

Reddit’s /r/ProgrammerHumor has recently treated us to this politically incorrect and quite childish little Open Source rant                 Obviously, like most “discussions” on reddit and specifically those discussions about Open Source, things got quickly very serious with people referring to Richard Stallman and how these critiques are childish and immature and what’s-wrong-with-our-industry™ etc. ...

Spending nearly my entire working day (and many evenings) with Open Source projects I don’t maintain I have come to form an opinion or two on the use of OSS – specifically when it comes to contributing to projects. We’ve come a long way as a community with tools like Github, making it easier and easier to get an OSS ...