Interviewers: Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell
Interviewee: Brad Wilson
In this interview we talk with Brad Wilson – Software Developer in Microsoft’s OfficeLabs team. In specific, we talk about:
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Interviewers: Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell
Interviewee: Mike Shaver
In this interview with talk with Mike Shaver, Chief Evangelist for Mozilla. In specific, we talk about:
- Governance of the project and how people get involved
- Changing contributors who fill key roles
- Roles of independent contributors versus employees
- Ensuring high usability in an open-source project
- Protecting reliability in a world of many extensions
- Tools used by the Mozilla team
- Reflections on open and closed development models
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Interviewers: Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell
Interviewee: Justin Erenkrantz
In this interview with Justin Erenkrantz we talked to him about:
- The Apache Foundation.
- Project Management Committees and the Apache Foundation.
- Some of the reasons Jason feels Apache has been so successful.
- What other open source projects might look to Apache for in terms of inspiration due to Apache’s longevity.
- The Apache Incubator and it’s role as part of the Apache Software Foundation.
- What is the on horizon for the Apache Web Server.
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Interviewers: Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell
Interviewee: Robert Bray
In this interview with Bob, Architect for Geospatial Products at Autodesk, we asked him about:
- Introduction of open source within Autodesk
- Role of project steering committees
- Decision to create an open source product
- Open source impact on closed source product
- Developer and engineer adjustments to open source process
- Differences between feature design in open and closed source
- Test and documentation for Autodesk open source
- Community contribution to open source projects
- Business reasons for creating open source products
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Interviewers: Scott Swigart, Richard Bowler, and Sean Campbell
Interviewee: Marc Miller
In this interview, we spoke with Marc Miller about his views on the current state of open source software. Marc works for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and in January, Marc took on a role as the open source software evangelist in the AMD Developer Outreach organization enabling Linux kernel and application developers to develop optimized code using both AMD and 3rd party tools and resources. In his role as a software Alliance Manager for AMD 2001-2006, Mr. Miller played a significant role in developing a Linux marketing strategy with a focus on integration of AMD technology with software tools developed by the open source community and industry partners. Throughout his career at AMD, Marc has been a key contact for open source developers wishing to work with AMD, and has been an open source ambassador for AMD, helping to coordinate outbound and inbound communication between AMD and Linux developers.
In this interview Marc talks about:
- Challenges that open source companies have when competing with proprietary software
- Advantages of open source
- Choice also has disadvantages
- Is open-source anti-capitalism?
- The PR value of being open-source
- Open-source is less idealistic and more pragmatic today
- The future is blending open-source and proprietary software
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