Why make your projects properly open? Sustainability
Snapshot from Bertrand's presentation in the Amsterdam IKS workshop: what does being an Apache project bring to the table?
The answer is sustainability. IKS is an EU-funded project which will eventually end. Proper project governance handled together with the Apache Software Foundation can help the software to survive and thrive for long after that.
Sustainability is something that is critical for all libraries and infrastructure software. If you want adoption, you need to ensure potential users and developers that the software will continue to be around. The way to accomplish that is to have a clear, open governance model. It is time to stop throwing code over the wall.
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Open Advice
I seem to have not blogged about this, but Open Advice, our book on Free and Open Source Software: what we wish we had known when we started, was published last month. The book was edited by Lydia Pintscher and includes essays from 42 authors, many of whom you'll recognize if you tend to go to FOSS conferences. The LWN...
Openwashing
Somehow I had missed this term being coined: The old "open vs. proprietary" debate is over and open won. As IT infrastructure moves to the cloud, openness is not just a priority for source code but for standards and APIs as well. Almost every vendor in the IT market now wants to position its products as "open." Vendors that don't...