tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82000787766561465992009-02-20T23:33:34.724-05:00Drilling underneath the cover of Open Source and other state-of-the-art application development methodologies. From the perspective of a technologist, entrepreneur, and open source enthusiast.Palle Pedersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01648791947054466419noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200078776656146599.post-46281195539084787162008-09-08T10:01:00.000-04:002008-09-15T10:03:13.686-04:00

We had great success with hiring the two Drupal position mentioned earlier (We Are Hiring!), and we are now expanding further with a developer for BI/data-mining/reporting.You can find the most immediate job posting under "Slice and Dice: Open Source Database Report Developer Wanted" on Craigslist.As always, please contact me if you are interested, know somebody who are interested, or have any

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We are now expanding our development team and hiring for new positions.You can find the most immediate job posting under "Are you ready to push the Drupal limits?" on drupal.org. The question is there simply because pushing the limits is what we want our developers to do!Please contact me if you are interested, know somebody who are interested, or have any ideas about how to best hire the right

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After many months of hard work, our new startup is out of stealth mode. We have launched our platform, we have launched paying customers, and we have many more in the pipeline! Our goal with the new company is to revolutionize Continued Medical Education (CME) - you can check out our web-site for more information. Needless to say, we could not have pulled off such a feature rich solution in

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As Doug Levin mentioned in his recent The “Great Dane” moves on posting, I left Black Duck Software after nearly 5 years serving as CTO, in order to join a couple of friends in a new venture! It was a very hard decision, but I am very excited about this new venture. Black Duck is not forgotten as I can still continue to contribute good (and crazy) ideas as an advisor.Black Duck has come very

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This was the title of a talk I was part of giving at MIT Friday along with a long-term friend and colleague Valérie Frayssé. It was part of the Computational Research in Boston (CRiB) seminar series and was quite well attended, as we nearly filled up one of the auditoriums in MITs Stata Center. I would like to thank Alan Edelman and Steven Johnson for inviting us and organizing this event.There

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The World Economic Forum launched this years annual meeting with a press release named World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2008 opens with calls for Collaborative Innovation and session topics like The Power of Collaborative Innovation. With a start like this, you would think that the IT section would be filled with examples of collaborative innovation and open source software.However, reality

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Over the holidays, I had a couple of discussions with people who - although they clearly understand many aspects of open source software - still equate open source to a free (as in free beer) alternative to proprietary products. When you see postings on message boards for "An open source alternative to [Pick your favorite product]" or check out dedicated web-sites for open source alternatives,

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In contrast to my experience in Hong Kong, the next stop in Korea presented a much more familiar view.Not just the snow could have been in Boston, but also the discussions about using decision support processes to incorporate open source software in an effective and controlled manner. It was in fact very similar to many of the discussions I have had in the U.S. and in Europe.However, the food and

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Just arrived in Hong Kong Tuesday night and besides being an amazing city, I had discussions here which triggered some thoughts.In the US and Europe, it has been relatively seldom that an open source discussion has been centered around AGPL, but it Hong Kong, AGPL turns out to be a really hot topic. The number of "Rolex" watches you get offered when walking down the street in Hong Kong seems to

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BusyBox is upping the ante on GPL compliance with their new lawsuit against Verizon stating that Verizon is infringing on the GPL (here is the actual filing) when shipping their FiOS routers. For those of you who are not familiar with Verizon, Verizon is one of the biggest telecommunication provider in the United States and FiOS is their version of fiber-optic Internet all the way to the

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On a recent plane trip, a colleague of mine brought up something interesting. While attending conferences where speakers have presented or demonstrated open source products, he decided to observe the audience reaction just as much as the presentation itself.For presentations of a non-commercial open source project, there is a point at which the audience realizes that the product is completely

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This is actually a question I was asked today!I am referring to the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 (AGPL), which was just released Monday. AGPL extends GPL to give end-users access to the source code for AGPL licensed software accessed over a network. As the Free Software Foundation (FSF) says in their press release, "The FSF recommends that people consider using the GNU AGPL for

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A few people have commented on how I actually account for the widespread code reuse in open source when estimating newly created open source code vs. reused open source code, so it seems like a good idea to fill in some more details.Not surprisingly, the open source community is excellent at reusing code! Traditional estimates of code reuse from papers like On Finding Duplication and

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For months Black Duck Software CEO Doug Levin has been writing a blog. It is interesting and offers useful insights into the open source community, software development and other things. After a series of inquiries, I slowly came to the conclusion that this was a good way to share my point of view as well. So I am writing this blog.As you may know, Black Duck Software maintains a database of all

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