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Better Academic Research through Open Source Collaboration, a guest post by...

Academic researchers succeed or fail based on their publishing record. Publications are intended to communicate their findings and enable others to build upon their work. Reproducibility of scientific...

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FOSS and Patents - Peer Collaboration as a Key to Countering Patent Risk,...

 In an earlier post I suggested that third-party patents pose the most significant risk of using free and open source software (FOSS). The risk boils down to this: with limited exceptions, someone with...

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.Net, Windows Apps Better With Open Source - by guest blogger Rocky Lhotka

Rockford Lhotka is CTO at Magenic, a company that specializes in planning, designing, building and maintaining your enterprise's most mission critical systems.  Rockford is the creator of CSLA .NET,...

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Open Source Software seeping into the .NET Developer world: A Q+A Session...

Question: Tell us about your company and your relationship with the .NET community.Patrick Hynds: I have been part of the .NET community since I first learned about the technology before it was even...

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Enterprise Hadoop: NuGetting Big Data, Guest post by Andrew Brust

Big Data and data science are rapidly growing areas, and there are numerous applications of these disciplines in the very Enterprises where .NET developers practice their craft.  Just as with...

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Patenting the Unpatentable, guest blog by Clark Asay

Many in the free and open source software (FOSS) world have long held the view that patents threaten their very way of life. Indeed, I recently wrote that patents pose the biggest intellectual...

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Frenemies: How IP Law Helps FOSS Communities, guest blog by Clark Asay

   In previous posts here and here I assessed the intellectual property (IP) risks that free and open source software (FOSS) communities face, as well as some possibilities of how to address them. And...

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Tips and Tricks on NuGet Packaging for .NET Developers

Hi, Recently i have the chance to work NuGet, NuGet is an open source Packaging Server and set of tools that you can use to package your work within an organization for distribution or publicly upload...

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Open Source -- The Last Patent Defense?

Contributed by guest blogger Heather Meeker.When Richard Stallman wrote in GPL2 “any free program is threatened constantly by software patents” he crystallized the ideological battle between open...

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The future of .NET development and NuGet

It’s been around for a while, that little thing called NuGet. We used to try and find third party code and assemblies using a web search engine, often compiling them ourselves and fighting with...

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