How Software is Built

Interviewers: Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell

Interviewee: Bjorn Freeman-Benson

In this interview we talk with Bjorn Freeman-Benson. In specific, we talk about:

• Breadth of projects at the Eclipse Foundation
• Coexistence between commercial and non-commercial interests
• The Eclipse plug-in architecture
• The developer audience and how it influences operations
• Schedule-driven release cycles as a control process
• Providing guidance to open source projects

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Interviewers: Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell

Interviewee: Ben Chelf

In this interview we talk with Ben Chelf from Coverity. In specific, we talk about:

• Scanning the worldwide open source code base for vulnerabilities
• The necessity of automating defect identification
• Building scalability into code analysis
• Overcoming the limitations of automatic scanning
• The hubris of believing too much in your code
• The difficulty of appearing objective
• The changing face of code security and analysis

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Interviewers: Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell

Interviewee: Hadar Pedhazur

In this interview we talk with Hadar Pedhazur from Opticality Ventures. In specific, we talk about:

• The investment viability of open source companies
• Innovation around open source business models
• Customer value derived from visible source
• The potential concerns around the open source investment bandwagon
• Mixed source business models
• The future of commercial open source

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