Monthly Archives: November 2016

FLOSS Weekly: Zalando

Simon co-hosted FLOSS Weekly 412 this week, interviewing leaders from European fashion retailer Zalando and asking questions about their many open source projects on Github and their use of Agile and Inner Source methodologies.

Microsoft & Linux & Patents & Tweets

Fact-checking some tweets about Linux Foundation’s newest member and their harvesting of other members’ money.

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Microsoft recently joined the Linux Foundation while still asserting its patents against the rest of the membership. As I found that odd, I tweeted some casually-calculated statistics  about Microsoft’s patent revenues that seemed to me to simply be the aggregation of common knowledge. But maybe people have forgotten the details; at least two respondents asked me to substantiate the figures. Having struck a nerve, this post is by way of explanation. Continue reading →

The SEOscerers Apprentice

SEO can quickly get out of control if it involves gaming open source communities. Don’t risk your site becoming a jailbird.

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Have you ever considered hiring an “SEO expert” to “improve your Google rankings”? I don’t mean the type that advises you how to ensure all the express and implied metadata on your web site is correct. That seems a reasonable thing to do, and it shouldn’t take a magician to help you get it right, and can almost be automated. Continue reading →