Throwing a net over the digital transformation era
Recently I’ve noticed a debate about Open Source Communities and Contributor Agreements.
Simon Phipps, in his post, says that “Contributor agreements that aggregate the copyrights of open source code in favour of a single corporate sponsor are a sure sign of a community where one member has more rights than the rest. And equality is the key to success.”
This is a nice opportunity for me to clarify my position about this topic and SpagoWorld contribution policy.… Read the rest
The recent OSBC Conference in San Francisco has risen again the “never-sleeping” debate about the open core model and, generally speaking, on open source business models. Amongsts many posts, I’ve chosen Gartner Brian Prentice’s one Open-Core: The Emperor’s New Clothes. I don’t want to extend this debate. I just would like to underline some aspects, which I apply everyday, with some colleagues of mine, on the open source approach of the projects belonging to the Engineering Group’s SpagoWorld initiative.… Read the rest
This is my firts post in this blog, so I want to introduce you in the “Ecology of Value” business model. It’s a model that could build a real ecosystem with many different businesses inside, granting sustainability in time because the benefits are not only for one company, but also for other users, integrators, vendors and researchers, inside an open network. It’s the model I’m adopting in the SpagoWorld initiative by Engineering.… Read the rest