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Open Source Business
Articles on the topic of Open Source Business.
Cost Optimization Through Open Source Software
Differentiating Community from Customers in an F/LOSS Business
Best Practices in Multi-Vendor Open Source Communities
Open to Everyone: How Open Source Communities Can Benefit from Diversity Without Disunity
Call for Papers: Blockchain and Digital Transformation
A Practitioner’s View on Distributed Storage Systems: Overview, Challenges and Potential Solutions
A Cross-Pollination of Ideas about Distributed Ledger Technological Innovation through a Multidisciplinary and Multisectoral lens: Insights from the Blockchain Technology Symposium ’21
Call for Papers: Distributed Ledger Technologies for Smart Digital Economies
Enabling and Promoting Sustainability through Digital API Ecosystems: An example of successful implementation in the smart city domain
Editorial: Insights (November 2020)
Criminal Enforcement of Trade Secret Theft: Strategic Considerations for Canadian SMEs
Approaching a Data-Dominant Logic
Editorial: Innovating in Times of Crisis (September 2020)
What are the Challenges of Building a Smart City?
Editorial: Insights (February 2020)
From Importing Innovations to Co-Producing Them: Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Development of Online Land Management Tools
Academic Publishing, Internet Technology, and Disruptive Innovation
Designing a Business Model for Environmental Monitoring Services Using Fast MCDS Innovation Support Tools
Reflecting on 10 Years of the TIM Review
Editorial: 10th Anniversary Issue (July 2017)
Combining Exploratory Analysis and Automated Analysis for Anomaly Detection in Real-Time Data Streams
TIM Seminar – Transforming a Desert City into an International Cybersecurity Hub and Ecosystem
TIM Lecture Series – Huge Memory and Collection-Oriented Programming: Less Code, More Speed?
TIM Lecture Series – Insights from Success and Failure in Technology Businesses
License Compliance in Open Source Cybersecurity Projects
Intrusion Learning: An Overview of an Emergent Discipline
Editorial: Cybersecurity (February 2016)
TIM Lecture Series – When Are Software Systems Safe Enough?
Securing Cyberspace: Towards an Agenda for Research and Practice
Reflecting on 100 Issues of the TIM Review
Editorial: 100th Issue (November 2015)
Q&A. Does a Software Development Firm Need an Open Source Policy?
Securing the Car: How Intrusive Manufacturer-Supplier Approaches Can Reduce Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
Editorial: Innovation and Entrepreneurship (December 2014)
TIM Lecture Series – The Business of Open Source
Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration in an Open Source Ecosystem
The Businesses of Open Data and Open Source: Some Key Similarities and Differences
The Business of Open Source Software: A Primer
Editorial: Open Source Business (January 2014)
Developing an Innovation Engine to Make Canada a Global Leader in Cybersecurity
Q&A. Should Startups Care about Application Security?
Managing Cybersecurity Research and Experimental Development: The REVO Approach
Keystone Business Models for Network Security Processors
Peer-to-Peer Enclaves for Improving Network Defence
Cybersecurity Futures: How Can We Regulate Emergent Risks?
Introducing “Business Source”: The Future of Corporate Open Source Licensing?
Editorial: Insights (June 2013)
Rapid Prototyping Using a Configurable Platform
Evolution of Wireless Sensor Networks for Industrial Control
Editorial: Technology Evolution (May 2013)
Platforms, Communities, and Business Ecosystems: Lessons Learned about Technology Entrepreneurship in an Interconnected World
Editorial: Platforms, Communities, and Business Ecosystems (February 2013)
Q&A. Is Open Source Sustainable?
Sustainability and Governance in Developing Open Source Projects as Processes of In-Becoming
The Evolving Role of Open Source Software in Medicine and Health Services
Going Open: Does it Mean Giving Away Control?
Sustainability of Open Collaborative Communities: Analyzing Recruitment Efficiency
Sustainability in Open Source Software Commons: Lessons Learned from an Empirical Study of SourceForge Projects
Code Forking, Governance, and Sustainability in Open Source Software
Editorial: Open Source Sustainability (January 2013)
Governance of Open Source Software Foundations: Who Holds the Power?
An Enterprise Perspective on Customer Value Propositions for Open Source Software
Editorial: Recent Research (December 2012)
TIM Lecture Series - Growing a Global Company Anchored on Open Source Software
TIM Lecture Series: Leadership Position in Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization
Making Money from Exploiting Schumpeterian Opportunities: John Sanguinetti and the Electronic Design Automation Industry
Editorial: Open Source Business (January 2012)
How Open Source Has Changed the Software Industry: Perspectives from Open Source Entrepreneurs
Q&A. What Is the Secret of Red Hat's Success?
Open Invention Network: A Defensive Patent Pool for Open Source Projects and Businesses
Q&A. What Are the Long-Term Effects of Open Source?
A New Way of Measuring Openness: The Open Governance Index
Business Ecosystems as Institutions of Participation: A Systems Perspective on Community-Developed Platforms
Editorial: Recent Research (November 2011)
Economics of Software Product Development Collectives
Editorial: Introducing the TIM Review (October 2011)
Beyond Technology: Enabling Communities Through Social Interoperability
Editorial: Miscellany (August 2011)
Introducing the Oregon State University Open Source Lab
Anystone Technologies: Lessons from the First Year of a Mobile Applications Startup
Benefits of the Community for Partners of Open Source Vendors
Reflecting on Fifty Issues of the OSBR
Lessons from an Open Source Business
Developing Silicon IP with Open Source Tools
Proving the Expertise of Freelance Android Developers
Control and Diversity in Company-led Open Source Projects
Editorial: Recent Research (February 2011)
Open Source License Selection in Relation to Business Models
Editorial: The Business of Open Source (January 2011)
How Firms Relate to Open Source Communities
Private-Collective Innovation: Let There Be Knowledge
Control in Open Source Software Development
Nokia's Hybrid Business Model for Qt
Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software
Developing a Service Industry to Support the Sahana Disaster Management System
IEEE Humanitarian Projects: Open Hardware for the Benefit of the Poorest Nations
Emerging Open Source Health Information Business Ecosystems in Resource-Poor Environments: the OpenMRS Experience
The Humanitarian FOSS Project
TriSano: Collaborating for the Good of Global Public Health
Editorial: Humanitarian Open Source (December 2010)
Mifos: Ending Poverty with Software
Open Source Contributions as a Complement to Your Sales Strategy
Editorial: Sales Strategy (2010)
Assessing Trust Between Members of a Marketplace
Integrating Lessons from Other Disciplines into Open Source Practice
Editorial: Interdisciplinary Lessons (August 2010)
Improving Product-Market Fit by Engaging an Open Source Community
Q&A. What business models are currently used with open source software?
Editorial: Go To Market (July 2010)
Open Source Partner Strategy: Are Your Core Businesses Aligned?
Q&A. How is social network analysis used in studies of open source?
Plumbing the Internet with PostgreSQL: An Open Source Case Study
Q&A. How do you make money with open source?
Editorial: Growing Business (June 2010)
Growing Revenue with Open Source
Integrating the Power of Open Source Telephony with Web 2.0 Technology
Inspired by Open Source and CEAs: The Future of Collaborative Healthcare Delivery in Canada
Communication Enabled Applications: What are the IP Considerations for Platform Providers?
Editorial: Cloud Services (April 2010)
Re-evaluating Open Source for Sustaining Competitive Advantage for Hosted Applications
Low Cost Cellular Networks with OpenBTS
CRC Mobile Broadcasting F/LOSS Projects
Experiences From the OSSIE Open Source Software Defined Radio Project
The State of Free Software in Mobile Devices
Editorial: Mobile (March 2010)
Open is the New Closed: How the Mobile Industry uses Open Source to Further Commercial Agendas
Establishing and Engaging an Active Open Source Ecosystem with the BeagleBoard
The Open Source Mobile Cloud: Delivering Next-Gen Mobile Apps and Systems
The Business of Open: Common Pitfalls for Open Source Startups
An Open Source Solution for Startups
Editorial: Startups (February 2010)
What's the Value of an Eyeball? Passive Participation in Open Source Ecosystems
Developing a Successful Open Source Training Model
Q&A. How can a community be considered "open source" if its primary objective is to promote commercialization?
Editorial: Success Factors (January 2010)
How the FreeBSD Project's Processes Help Companies Build Products
Open Source User Assistance: Ensuring That Everybody Wins
Community 101
Q&A. What lessons can "green" computing learn from open source?
Editorial: Value Co-Creation (November 2009)
Freely Licensed and Open Source Pipelines for Art Based Film and Media Production
Developing a Portal for Open Source Creation: A Brief Study
Social Media and Open Source: Worlds Apart?
Editorial: Arts & Media (October 2009)
Editorial: Business Intelligence (September 2009)
Business Intelligence: A Primer
Open Source BI: A Market Overview
Open Source BI Reporting Tool Review
Enabling Geospatial Business Intelligence
BIRT: Building Next Generation BI Using Open Source
Opening the Source of Art
Open Source: Shifting Buying and Evaluation Patterns of BI Users
Special Considerations for Business Intelligence Projects
Q&A. What will Oracle do with Sun’s open source offerings?
Economic Free Software Perspectives
Social Actions: Making the Web More Philanthropic
A Model for Sustainable Student Involvement in Community Open Source
Editorial: Collaboration (July 2009)
Open Source Resources in Education: Opportunities and Challenges
TellTable: Collaborative Work Using Single User Applications
Offline: Where Tech Communities Succeed With Women
So Are You A Contributor?: Women's Contributions to Linux and Open Source Span Technology and Business
Lessons on Community Management from the Open Source World
The Human Factor in Open Source
An International Look at Women in Open Source
Editorial: Women in Open Source (June 2009)
The 100-Mile Client Roster
Community-Built Software: What I Learned from Calagator
The GNOME Foundation Is All About People
BSD Advocacy and Breaking Through Market Barriers
The Steady March of the European Penguins
Use of Open Source Software by the Brazilian Government
The Feds are Ready for a Change
Transparency in Government
Use of Moodle for Single Entry Portal at Riga Technical University
Editorial: Open Source in Government (May 2009)
Licensing of Open APIs
Torys Technology Law Speaker Series: Open Source Licenses and the Boundaries of Knowledge Production
Using JavaScript Toolkits to Create Rich Internet Applications
Editorial: Open APIs (April 2009)
Measuring Modularity in Open Source Code Bases
An Introduction to Open APIs
Editorial: Commercialization (February 2009)
How Companies Make Money Through Involvement in Open Source Hardware Projects
F/LOSS is Commercial Software
Q&A. How can an individual or small business give back to an open source community?
Geospatial: An Open Source Microcosm
Reassuring End Users Of Open Source: The OSGeo Example
Geospatial Primer: in Search of the Next "Killer App"
A RESTful Implementation of Geospatial Web Services
Editorial: Geospatial (March 2009)
Government Transparency via Open Data and Open Source
Open Source Web Based Geospatial Processing with OMAR
How Open Source Strengthens Business Models
The Arrival of the Mobile Internet Thanks to the Economics of Open Source Software
The Role of Consumers Within an Open Source Community
So You Wanna be a Linus Torvalds? The Do's and Don'ts of Running a Small Open Source Project
Editorial: Enterprise Participation (January 2009)
Collaborative Software Development in the Enterprise
The Benefits to ISVs of Working with Large Enterprise Consumers on Open-Source Projects
Experiments, Expertise and Google Summer of Code (TM)
Omeka: Open Source Web Publishing for Research, Collections and Exhibitions
Power of Openness to Solve Textbook Access Problems
Social Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Driving Innovation Through Interoperability
Editorial: Enabling Innovation (December 2008)
Creating Disruptive Value For Not-For-Profit Organizations Using Open Source
The Emerging Role of Open Source in Healthcare
Developing an Open Source Reference Implementation of the Canadian Electronic Health Records Solution
Open Source and Open Standards: Working Together for Effective Software Development and Distribution
Open Health Tools: Tooling for Interoperable Healthcare
Editorial: Health and Life Sciences (November 2008)
Mirth: Standards-Based Open Source Healthcare Interface Engine
TIM Lecture Series: A Practitioners Guide to Ecosystem Development
TIM Lecture Series: OSGi and Server-Side Eclipse
Contrasting Proprietary and Free/Open Source Game Development
Free and Open Source Licenses in Community Life
Open Source Software Foundations
Community Building: NetBSD in Hindsight
Treasury of the iCommons: Reflections of a Commons Sourcing Lawyer
A Panamanian Initiative to Embrace the Future
Reducing Global Poverty and Disease with Community and Technology: An Open Source Perspective
Editorial: Building Community (October 2008)
Open Source, Social Innovation and a New Economy of Engagement
OSS Spending Trends in Education
Is Open Source Right for your Library?
Project Conifer
Editorial: Education (August 2008)
TIM Series: Theory, Evidence and the Pragmatic Manager
Why Give Knowledge Away for Free? The Case for Open Educational Resources
Hybrid Software Boosts High Performance Computing Productivity
Sharing Information on the Semantic Web: The Reminiscence of an Old Legal Issue
Software Accessibility: Where Are We Today?
Q&A. Besides compliance, are there any business reasons for maintaining an accessible website?
Editorial: Accessibility (July 2008)
TIM Series: Practicing Safe Software: Good Software Record
The Need for F/LOSS (Governance) Operations
Open Source Vulnerability Database Project
Security Hardening of Open Source Software
The Canadian DMCA: A Betrayal
Q&A. Why use OSS, other than the licensing cost of the software?
Editorial: Security (June 2008)
TIM Lecture Series: Building Technical Communities
Coverity Report
Language Insecurity
Method for Qualification and Selection of Open Source Software
Q&A. Does lack of product management impact the users of open source?
Making Open Source Ready for the Enterprise: The Open Source Maturity Model
Open Source Software for Corporate IT
Editorial: Enterprise Readiness (May 2008)
TIM Lecture Series: The State of Open Source Software and Corporate Software
Open Source Telecom
Uses of Creative Commons Licenses
Editorial: Communications (April 2008)
Open Hardware Business Models
Free and Open Source Software: Overview and Preliminary Guidelines for the Government of Canada
Open Source e-Procurement Software
Open Source in Canada's Public Sector
Q&A. Does the Google Summer of Code project provide any value to open source projects and the students who participate?
Editorial: Procurement (March 2008)
The OpenTTT Approach
The Personal Research Portal
Editorial: Open Data (February 2008)
Data Access in Canada: CivicAccess.ca
How is Copyright Relevant to Source Data and Source Code?
Implementing Open Data: The Open Data Commons Project
Open Source Interoperability: It's More than Technology
Editorial: Interoperability (January 2008)
Open Standards vs. Open Source: a Case of the OpenAccess Standard
Ladder of Participation: Business Models for Peer Production
Open Carrier Grade Base Platform
Ensuring Software IP Cleanliness
An Introduction to Rights Expression Languages
Key Changes to the GNU General Public License
Protecting Information Technology Property Rights
Editorial: Clean Intellectual Property (December 2007)
A Rallying Moment for Canadian Open Source Software
Improving Application Development by Managing Licensing Issues
Supporting Not-for-Profits: an Opportunity for the Commons
Ensuring the Quality of Open Source Software
Competitive Actions of Open Source Firms
Special Considerations for Financial Services Firms
Enterprise Open Source Support
Editorial: Support (November 2007)
Conference Report: Open Education 2007
Q&A. What effect do supply and a demand have on open source commercialization?
Free as in Adjective, Not as in Verb
Evolution of an Open Source Strategy
Comparing the BSD and GPL Licenses
Five Stage Approach to Licensing
QNX Hybrid Software Model
Open Source Licensing in the Enterprise
Editorial: Licensing (October 2007)
Open Source on Trial
Editorial: Defining Open Source (September 2007)
Q&A. What is the state of open source in public administration?
Open Source as Community
Open Source Assets
Open Hardware
Open Educational Resources
Defining Open Source
Adding Value to Information Systems Using Free Data
Open Source Telecommunication Companies
Company Interactions with Open Platforms
Building an Open Source Company One Penguin at a Time
Putting Maps on the Web with Open Source Technologies
Editorial: Business Models (August 2007)
Keystone Organization for Ontario's Open Source Ecosystem
TFN: Open Source and Innovation
Competitive Open Source
Lead Projects
Q&A. How one can develop a business model around open source?
Software Licensing
Eclipse: A Premier Open Source Community
Editorial: Introducing the OSBR (July 2007)
Ontario Research Commercialization Program
