Open Source Musings

In early April I gave a talk at the WPI Computer Science Colloquium .You can find a copy of the presentation here . In the coming weeks I'll discuss a number of topics from that presentation on t...

http://osmusings.blogspot.com/2013/06/wpi-presentation.html

I'd like to thank everyone who attended my presentation yesterday, and for the interesting discussions that followed. As promised, here is a link to the presentation.

http://osmusings.blogspot.com/2011/03/eclipsecon-presentation.html

I'm reading Images of Projects by Mark Winter and Tony Szczepanek. The premise of this book is that projects can be viewed from a number of different perspectives, and the perspective we choose ...

http://osmusings.blogspot.com/2010/03/images-of-open-source.html

Preparing for EclipseCon, I had a chance to browse my past presentations. At EclipseCon 2007 I presented The Garden & the Market: The Value of Eclipse Open Source . This is probably my favorite p...

http://osmusings.blogspot.com/2010/03/business-of-open-source-again.html

The frantic pounding on your door jolts you awake, and noticing that it is three in the morning doesn't calm your nerves. You peek out the window, not really knowing what to expect, but any specu...

http://osmusings.blogspot.com/2009/11/on-purpose-emergency.html

Administrative note: thanks for all the comments on my previous post ! I haven't found a solution, but have moved on to the “latest and greatest,” which has circumvented the issue. For those ...

http://osmusings.blogspot.com/2008/10/spoon-fork-or-knife.html

One of the most frustrating things that can happen to an open source committer is to meet someone who tried your software, ran into some problem, and just walked away. Did you check the error log...

http://osmusings.blogspot.com/2008/07/walking-away-from-bugs.html

It's been a while since I last blogged . In blog years, that's like a lifetime. I guess it's because I've been reincarnated in a new job and in a new role. It's taken me a while to get settled i...

http://osmusings.blogspot.com/2008/07/returning-to-planet.html

Regardless of the process (or lack thereof) you use for creating software, there has to be some idea of requirements. These requirements tell us, in whatever form they are expressed, what it is t...

http://osmusings.blogspot.com/2008/03/toxic-requirements.html

OK, so it's been a while since the first post in this series... Maybe there's an open source antipattern lurking? :-) The second antipattern I'd like to describe deals with the costs of developi...

http://osmusings.blogspot.com/2008/01/open-source-antipatterns-how-to-hurt.html

One of the benefits of working on an Eclipse project is that you get to see firsthand how open source is produced and consumed. In a series of "Antipattern" posts, I will talk about some things ...

http://osmusings.blogspot.com/2007/10/open-source-antipatterns-how-to-hurt.html

I’ve been reading the fascinating Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger, and have a few preliminary ideas about how this relates to open source. The final two sentences of his prologu...

http://osmusings.blogspot.com/2007/05/code-wants-to-be-miscellaneous.html

The word “commoditization” often comes up in reference to software ], especially open source software. The standard notion is that a particular class of software becomes commoditized when the...

http://osmusings.blogspot.com/2007/05/do-software-commodities-exist.html

This blog is a spin-off from my previous one concentrating on the Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) project. In that blog I've mixed in discussion of open source in general with DTP posts. Based ...

http://osmusings.blogspot.com/2007/03/purpose-of-this-blog.html

The postings on this site do not represent positions, strategies, opinions, etc. of Sybase, Inc., the Eclipse Foundation, or the Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) project.

http://osmusings.blogspot.com/2007/03/adminstrative-notes.html