Contents tagged with Open Source
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Open Source is about much more than code contributions
Tell the pointy-haired bosses around the world: putting a GPL sticker on your product is not going to magically make all those nerds in their parent’s basements build it for you, and for free. Nope. Not going to happen. And you know what? The code contributions are not the benefits you’re looking for…
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My TechEd Europe talk on Orchard is online
I spent a lot of time on planes last week (which explains why I haven’t posted anything), on my way to Barcelona, where Microsoft had invited me to talk on the .NET Open Source Showcase. It was a great experience and opportunity, and I hope I did justice to Orchard in the time I had to present it. I focused on what makes Orchard a success story, and how to reproduce that success on other open source projects.
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The CMS ecosystem and Microsoft
CMS is extremely important strategically for any web company. About 35% of web sites use a CMS, and the top ones are all PHP (WordPress on its own is more than 20% of all web sites). In other words, if you care about the market share of your web platform, you need a good CMS running on it.
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How Orchard deals with dependency licenses
Managing dependencies in any project presents challenges, but open source adds its own constraints. In the wake of the release by Microsoft of new and useful libraries that are unfortunately encumbered by unacceptable licensing restrictions, I thought it would be a good time to summarize how we do things here in the Orchard project, both to get feedback and to give ideas to others facing similar challenges.
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Leaving the Evil Empire
TL;DR: I’m leaving Microsoft to found my own company. My involvement in Orchard continues unchanged. -
About Orchard Governance and Microsoft
Back in September, we did something with Orchard that is kind of a big deal: we transferred control over the Orchard project to the community.