Relicensing

Dries Buytaert schreibt in »The Software Sovereignty Scale« für dri.es Sovereignty is not about where a company is headquartered or where software was originally written. It is about whether you retain “freedom of action” over the technology you depend on, even if the vendor changes strategy, gets acquired, or disappears. Der Artikel enthält viele zutreffende Überlegungen zum Thema Souveränität. Auch der vorgeschlagene Ansatz, Souveränität messbar zu machen, ist interessant. ...

Der Artikel »Why single vendor is the new proprietary« von Thierry Carrez strotzt nur so vor klugen Gedanken und Informationen. Im Folgenden dient das angeführte Zitat lediglich als Repräsentant des gesamten Inhalts. In the next 20 years, Open Source got overwhelmingly popular and unleashed a software revolution. A recent study by researchers at Harvard Business School estimated the demand-side value of Open Source software to be $8.8 trillion! In other words, without Open Source, companies would have to pay 3.5 times as much for software than they currently do. It’s estimated that 96% of software contains an Open Source component. Developing new software today without using any Open Source would be a pretty challenging endeavor. ...