Open Source
So far I have spent my entire professional career in Open Source, and believe it to be a superior in many ways. Over the past twenty years, I've seen Open Source expand from being a software license to an innovation model and a business model disruptor. I've dedicated a lot of my time helping people and organizations understand the power of Open Source.
2026
- The privilege of AI in Open Source
- Podcast: Talking digital sovereignty with James Kanter
- Friction, abstraction and verification
- Europe turns to Open Source for independence
- Contentful and the limits of "Buy European"
- Grow the ecosystem, not just yourself
- What does 'Buy European' even mean?
- The Sovereignty Prerequisite
- Open Source infrastructure deserves a business model
- The Software Sovereignty Scale
- AI creates asymmetric pressure on Open Source
- Digital Sovereignty requires Open Source procurement
- AI is a business model stress test
2025
- I open-sourced my blog content
- Can AI clean up its own mess?
- 'Source available' is not open source (and that's okay)
- Funding Open Source like public infrastructure
2024
2021
- PHP Foundation launched
- Section 230: repeal, reform or reprioritize?
- The Free Software Foundation: it's time for a new beginning
- The long-term, world-changing promise of the blockchain
2020
- Defending the Open Web
- How governments can help sustain Open Source
- Public money, public code
- Three trends driving today's "Flash Digital Transformation"
- The power of Open Source in the fight against COVID-19
- Shop local to fuel the Open Source dividend
- Is Open Source recession-proof?
2019
- Balancing Makers and Takers to scale and sustain Open Source
- Commercial sponsorship and Open Source sustainability
- Acquia acquires Mautic to create the Open Digital Experience Platform
- The privilege of free time in Open Source
- The Open Web can still win
- Tidelift raises $25 million series B
2018
- My thoughts on IBM buying Red Hat for $34 billion
- A breakout year for Open Source businesses
- From a world wide web to a personal web
- Google ceding control of AMP
- Who sponsors Drupal development? (2017-2018 edition)
- Why large organizations are choosing to contribute to Drupal
- How Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub impacts the cloud wars
- The letter that released the World Wide Web technology into the public domain
- How Drupal influences other Open Source projects
- That "passion + learning + contribution + relationships" feeling
- Build and operate your own CDN
2017
2016
- How to move an entire government to a new digital platform
- Who sponsors Drupal development? (2015-2016 edition)
- The long path to being understood
- Investing in Open Source startups
- Demandware acquisition heats up the customer experience market
- Can we save the Open Web?
2015
- Algorithms rule our lives, so who should rule them?
- Loosen control the Open Source way
- The coming era of data and software transparency
- Giving back and making money
2014
- Scaling Open Source communities
- The end of ownership: the zero-marginal-cost economy
- Open Source and social capital
- The business behind Open Source
- A method for giving credit to organizations that contribute code to Open Source
2013
- The Assembled Web
- To start an Open Source project or not?
- Open Source code: by the people, for the people
- Passive income and Open Source
2011
2010
- The commercialization of a volunteer-driven Open Source project
- Clickability FUD on Open Source versus SaaS
- The history of MySQL AB
- Open Source in the Enterprise and in the Cloud
- Future of Open Source Survey 2010