Papers and Pubs
- The Rise and Evolution of the Open Source Software Foundation
- Under the Hood: Open Source and Open Standards Business Models in Context
This is an essay in the second O'Reilly collection of papers on open source software "Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution", O'Reilly Media [ISBN: 978-0-596-00802-4], edited by Chris DiBona, Danese Cooper, and Mark Stone.
Understanding Free and Open Source Licenses, Version 2.1, An Optaros White Paper published in August, 2006
Open Source Legal Risk Management in the Enterprise, Version 1.2, An Optaros White Paper published in August, 2006
POSIX: A Case Study in a Successful Standard, Or Why We Don’t Need Radical Change in the SDO Process, Proceedings of the IEEE Standards and Innovation in Information Technology Conference in Aachen, Germany, September 1999.
Interix: UNIX Applications Portability to Windows NT via an Alternative Environment Subsystem, Proceedings of the USENIX Windows NT Workshop in Seattle, WA, August 1997, and presented as an (updated) Invited Talk at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 1998
The Myth of Application Source-Code Conformance, ACM StandardView, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 1996
The POSIX Family of Standards, ACM StandardView, Vol. 3, No. 1, March 1995
Essays
- Perspectives on the Shared Source Initiative
Published 26 March, 2005 by O'Reilly Media - When are you going to sue your customers?
The essay that launched the blog in January, 2005.
My Other Accounts
Biography
I am a technical executive, a founder, a consultant, a writer, an international business person, a systems developer, a software construction geek, and a standards diplomat. I love to build teams and products that make customers ecstatic. I have worked in the IT industry since 1980 as both customer and vendor. Currently I am part of the business strategy team for HP Helion at Hewlett-Packard.
There's a long version of the CV, and my full LinkedIn profile also exists.
The development of the Chinese software market (open source and otherwise) remains an area of deep interest for me. [I organized the agenda, speakers and sponsors for the inaugural Beijing Open Source Software Forum as part of the 2007 Software Innovation Summit in Beijing.]
I was a founder and vice-president, R&D at Softway Systems. When Softway was acquired by Microsoft in 1999, User Friendly posted the following:
Interests
professional stuff: open source, software development discipline, software business, standards, intellectual property law, China.
personal stuff: snowboarding, reading, yoga.
henry v, act iii, scene i
King Henry: Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our english dead!
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility,
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, ...