Open Source Archives

Linux Foundation Public Health Launched to Help Fight COVID-19

by Jono Bacon | Jul 20, 2020 | Open Source, Uncategorized

The Linux Foundation are well known in the open source community. Aside from the enormous growth of Linux, the Linux Foundation has fostered innovation across a broad of different industries including the cloud (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), motion picture arts...

How To Do Open Core Well | 6 Recommendations

by Jono Bacon | Jul 2, 2020 | Open Core, Open Source

Open Core is an open source business model that has been growing in popularity in recent years. In Open Core there is (1) an open source project, and (2) one or more commercial products that sit on top of or extend that project. Open Core provides the benefits of...

An Example Of Open Source Community Engagement Done Well

by Jono Bacon | Apr 29, 2019 | Community, Open Source

Open source community can be a tricky business, but today I want to share a quick example of the kind of open source community engagement I try to encourage more generally, and with clients. This one comes from a client of mine, Zeppelin, who builds tools for...

Open Source Won’t Save A Subpar Product

by Jono Bacon | Apr 21, 2019 | Community, Open Source

Bonus points for those of you who can guess where the main image for this post is from. One of the interesting elements of working with a range of different companies is being able to better understand the dynamics that influence how well a community will succeed or...

CommunityBridge by the Linux Foundation: Digging In

by Jono Bacon | Mar 21, 2019 | Open Source

On Tuesday last week I drove down to Half Moon Bay with Jeremy and Ilan for the Open Source Leadership Summit. I always enjoy this event: it is smaller and more focused than the bigger conferences, which helps facilitate some great discussion. Angela’s team at...

Closed Source and Ethics: Good, Bad, Or Ugly?

by Jono Bacon | Jun 11, 2018 | Closed Source, Free Culture, Free Software, Open Source

Recently the news broke that Microsoft are acquiring GitHub. Effusive opinions flowed from all directions: some saw the acquisition as a sensible fit for Microsoft to better support developers, and some saw it as a tyrant getting their grubby fingers on open...