From the monthly archives:

January 2011

Corporate Open Source Considerations.

by Gil Yehuda on January 12, 2011

in Open Source


Continuing the thoughts from my previous post on OpenWashing… If openness is so good, why don’t tech companies simply share all their software code?  Open Source is “a good thing” so why not opensource it all — going whole-hog?  I get asked this question every so often.  Funny, since I also get asked “Why would a company give anything [...]

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OpenWashing doesn’t really work.

by Gil Yehuda on January 6, 2011

in Enterprise 2.0,Open Source


Recently someone asked me about OpenWashing.  Let me share my thoughts here. OpenWashing is a derogatory term for companies who pretend to “do open source.”  (We’ll discuss what that could mean.) The term is related to WhiteWashing (censoring information in order to “fix” history) and GreenWashing (portraying your product to be more environmentally sensitive than it [...]

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The Blogger’s Transformation

by Gil Yehuda on January 3, 2011

in Enterprise 2.0


One of the habits of highly effective people is to “seek to understand before being understood.”  This habit teaches us to approach life with openness and willingness to learn — as a precondition to our effective contributions to the world.  Some of us are quite good a “taking it all in” and processing lots of [...]

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