Heartbleed is a bit over one month old now. A bug significant enough to have its own Wikipedia page. Today, we're going to look into how wrong we have been in assuming that Open Source software is more secure than commercial software, because of our thinking that source code is open and that many developers … Continue reading Free as in Beer has caused Heartbleed (and Much More)
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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
Oracle GlassFish, or Why You Should Think About Open Source Again
Oracle's recent announcement about the discontinuation of commercial services for JEE's reference implementation GlassFish has caused many reactions in the community involved with JEE. The reactions reach from: Markus Eisele's rather pessimistic outlook on JEE's future in general Adam Bien's constructive (or cynical? With Adam Bien, you can never be sure) suggestions of moving GlassFish … Continue reading Oracle GlassFish, or Why You Should Think About Open Source Again
A Significant Difference Between Open Source and Commercial Software
A recent event has triggered a lot of interest in the debate about the good and the bad parts of Open Source. Oracle's attack on Open Source. For large corporations who aren't Red Hat, taking a stand on the topic is far from easy. Oracle used to sell only commercial software, but has since acquired … Continue reading A Significant Difference Between Open Source and Commercial Software
10 Reasons not to Choose a Particular Open Source software
We're all Software Engineers of one type or another. Most of us have one thing in common, though: We're lazy. And we know that someone else was less lazy and has already solved that tedious problem that we're on. And because we're not only lazy but also stingy, we search for Free Open Source software. … Continue reading 10 Reasons not to Choose a Particular Open Source software
Jenkins (and Others) about Dropping Support for Java 5
As an Open Source developer, I'm used to trying to support as many reasonable things for my users as possible. However, this has never included support for Java 5, which itself is hardly supported by popular Java vendors anymore. Hence jOOQ requires Java 6 or more to compile and run. There is now an interesting initiative … Continue reading Jenkins (and Others) about Dropping Support for Java 5
How to Behave on Mailing Lists
I recently stumbled upon the following document: http://www.apache.org/dev/contrib-email-tips.html It's a useful list of rules, ideas about how to behave on open source mailing lists. Of course, these rules include both committers and users ;-)
The art of doing it right – who knows it?
When I first started developing jOOQ, I was pretty sure that 85% of the people that hear about it for the first time will not take the time to look behind the first impression and think any of these things: Yet another ORM Why not just use Hibernate That's not surprising, and I can't blame … Continue reading The art of doing it right – who knows it?