Open Source - No Kill Switch

3 years agoin Open Source, software development

Can Open Source model prevail in its current shape?

TL;DR OSS has conquered the world, forcing even the biggest players of commercial software market to adjust their strategy to this fact. But the original idea of OSS has got somehow twisted in the meantime: everyone uses it, without…

3 years agoin .NET, Microsoft, Open Source

Five to midnight: what to expect of .NET Core 1.0 RTM

New .NET is around a corner. Tomorrow (2016.06.27) we'll put our hands on freshly baked .NET Core 1.0 & ASP.NET Core 1.0. What can (should) we expect of this new version? How will tomorrow (&…

4 years agoin Open Source, Social Coding

The one thing about OSS that people notoriously ignore

Btw. so did/do I, so don't treat it as another "smart-ass sage tutoring the world how awesome he is" kind of post ;P People love OSS due to various reasons, naming just few: some love it, because…

4 years agoin Comfort Zone, Open Source

Open Source as a style of living. For everyone.

The more I think about it, the more I am against strict code ownership ("my stuff = my commits"). I mean - yes, there has to be someone who 'owns' the piece of functionality (for the sole purpose of…

6 years agoin Open Source, Redis, Riak

.NET (&Windows) is just not enough

As you can see in the title. End of story. Period. Maybe it’s just bad luck, but within few last weeks I had quite a few similar experiences - I was looking for a component to be integrated…