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May 2021

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A Rights Ratchet Score Card
A draft scorecard for determining if a software project is open as bait for a business pivot or genuinely keeping your freedoms protected.
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Simon Phipps
What Did Sun’s OSPO Do?
Started in 1999, established as an official corporate function in 2005, Sun’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO) was among the first in the industry and…
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Simon Phipps
Accommodating Open Source In Standards Processes
Holders of zero-tolerance positions on both sides of the SEP divide need to realise that accommodating open source productively inside standards bodies…
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Simon Phipps
Growing Blueberries
Why accommodating open source at a standards body is like growing blueberries.
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Simon Phipps
Software Freedom For Business Value
Software freedom is important to as an idea, but it also creates all the value of open source for business and should be jealously guarded by OSPOs.
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Simon Phipps
Permission Beyond Licensing
Is that single-company-controlled project actually open source in the sense of delivering software freedoms to you or just about delivering prospective…
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Simon Phipps

February 2021

OSPOs as Community Advocates
Is your Open Source Program Office just part of your corporate defences, or is it the community’s advocate inside your company as well?
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Simon Phipps
Corporate Maturity As Stochastic Outcome
Corporate open source maturity may be better evaluated by considering the actions of individuals and small groups statistically rather than evaluating…
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Simon Phipps
How Much Interoperability Is Enough?
Policymakers considering interoperability mandates are doing the right thing but need to be watchful for extremes of perfection or compromise, which…
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