intellectual property

The .org creates wealth and spreads it around. The .com tries to make a living and contributes much of that...

You have to stay on top of open source decisions, you have to constantly evaluate, and maybe (especially if you're...

The idea of a foundation truly funded by individuals (as opposed to a business consortium like Eclipse or Mozilla, or...

The App Store has Microsoft-sized numbers, the kind that the Justice Department normally looks at closely. Should they?

In this way you can avoid forks of your code, encourage the growth of the code base, and hopefully grow...

Microsoft and Apple have built themselves some nice cul de sacs, but in time either the city will roll over...

Without open source, the whole software house of cards would collapse into monopoly. The democracy and capitalism we so pride...

Governance is something that happens over time, a continuing challenge of process which demands both a thick skin against critics,...

What's more important in governance is not the license, but the process. If Ristic follows the Apache governance process –...

In business you either stand for something or you'll stand for anything. Lead, follow, or get out of the way.