Tobie Langel·Sep 12, 2019Why invest in open source?Tech giants aren’t philanthropies. There’s a reason they’re betting on open source: it’s good for business.A response icon1A response icon1
Tobie Langel·Sep 5, 2019Buffer’s no bullshit open source contribution policySmaller companies need open source contribution policies too, but they can be radically simple.
Tobie Langel·Mar 23, 2019W3C doesn’t help its invited experts. It should.Software foundations have increasingly started helping non-corporate backed contributors with travel expenses. W3C is lagging way behind.
Tobie Langel·Mar 12, 2019To attract top talent, companies need to adopt more balanced IP agreementsAccording to GitHub’s 2017 open source survey, 37% of contributors to open source projects don’t know whether their work contract allows…
Tobie Langel·Mar 4, 2019Behold second-order consequences!In a recent Huffington Post’s article about Ocasio-Cortez’s interrogation of Michael Cohen, the authors claimed that “[o]ne advantage…
Tobie Langel·Jan 21, 2019Measuring project health, community editionDevelopers often intuitively assess the health of open source dependencies they decide to take on. What can we learn from their practice?
Tobie Langel·Jan 19, 2019Measuring the health of open source projectsWhen picking open source software, choosing a healthy project is paramount.
Tobie Langel·Jan 17, 2019Current issues with the CSS landscape and how to fix them 🏳️An unrolled Twitter thread
Tobie Langel·Jan 16, 2019Developers’ appetite for open source fuels the cloud warsYesterday, Stratechery’s Ben Thompson wrote a thought provoking article about the current AWS / MongoDB kerfuffle that’s been keeping the…A response icon1A response icon1
Tobie Langel·Jun 20, 2018The Compound interest of free timeHow open source widens wage and position gaps in tech and what companies can do about it.
