What we Need is Standardised Non-OSS Licenses

If you've followed the recent (fake) news, you've probably already heard it. Oracle is "massively ramping up audits of Java customers it claims are in breach of its licences" After a quick check on the source (The Register), here's a more realistic, probably more accurate version of that headline: Oracle is thinking about auditing 1-2 … Continue reading What we Need is Standardised Non-OSS Licenses

With Commercial Licensing, Invest in Innovation, not Protection

When people start creating commercially licensed software (like we did, in 2013 with jOOQ), there is always the big looming question: What do I do about piracy? I've had numerous discussions with fellow entrepreneurs about this topic, and this fear is omnipresent. There has also been a recent discussion on reddit, titled "prevent sharing of … Continue reading With Commercial Licensing, Invest in Innovation, not Protection

jOOQ Newsletter: June 18, 2014 – jOOQ goes JavaOne™

jOOQ Goes JavaOne™ We're super excited to announce that our CEO and Head of R&D Lukas will be heading to San Francisco this fall to talk about jOOQ at JavaOne™! This is not just great for Data Geekery and jOOQ, but also for the whole Java / SQL ecosystem, as we believe that the Java / SQL … Continue reading jOOQ Newsletter: June 18, 2014 – jOOQ goes JavaOne™

jOOQ Newsletter: April 16, 2014 – Monthly, Yearly, Perpetual licenses now available

Subscribe to this newsletter here Tweet of the Day Our customers, users, and followers are sharing their love for jOOQ to the world. Here are: Mahmud who cannot wait to make more magic with jOOQ. https://twitter.com/bigthingist/status/455985890125287424 Peter Kopfler who, after hearing about jOOQ and SQL in Vienna is thrilled to take a deep dive into the … Continue reading jOOQ Newsletter: April 16, 2014 – Monthly, Yearly, Perpetual licenses now available

jOOQ Newsletter: April 2, 2014

subscribe to this newsletter here Tweet of the Day Our customers, users, and followers are sharing their love for jOOQ to the world. Here are: Arturo Tena who simply loves jOOQ 3.3, and expresses this with a creative transformation of our version numbering scheme: https://twitter.com/arturotena/status/434502197217202176 Florin T.Pătraşcu who cannot stop integrating jOOQ with MicroMVC, because he discovers more … Continue reading jOOQ Newsletter: April 2, 2014

Open Source Completely Underestimates Contributor License Agreements

Reddit's /r/ProgrammerHumor has recently treated us to this politically incorrect and quite childish little Open Source rant Obviously, like most "discussions" on reddit and specifically those discussions about Open Source, things got quickly very serious with people referring to Richard Stallman and how these critiques are childish and immature and what's-wrong-with-our-industry™ etc. Let's not delve … Continue reading Open Source Completely Underestimates Contributor License Agreements

An Open Source License to Increase Your Street Credibility

Many of us geeks don't really care about users, tractions, etc. when we spam GitHub with our little toy projects. I mean, who knows if we really have the time to maintain them? Certainly, there's almost no money in it anyway, so we might just as well give it away for free (e.g. jOOX). Nonetheless, … Continue reading An Open Source License to Increase Your Street Credibility

Free Open Source with Commercial Support

Have you ever thought about "Free" Open Source with commercial support vs. commercial software? We have and we found that the following is true: Free Open Source Software with commercial support ... is the best business model for companies selling services for very complex OSS software where customers might lack skilled personnel. This includes things … Continue reading Free Open Source with Commercial Support

jOOQ Newsletter October 28, 2013

subscribe to the newsletter here jOOQ 3.2 Licensing Update Three weeks ago, we have announced and released jOOQ 3.2 under the terms of a new dual-licensing model offering jOOQ's support for commercial databases under a commercial jOOQ license. The jOOQ community has reacted intensively on the user group, most of the feedback having been very positive. The licensing … Continue reading jOOQ Newsletter October 28, 2013