Dr. Frédéric Bénard is Engineering Manager at Motorola and leads the Open Source Software Center of Excellence, which is part of the Motorola "Embedded Systems, Open Source and Linux Technology Group". He holds a B.Sc. in Physics from McGill University, a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Toronto, and an MBA from McGill University.
Open source software is shifting the software industry into a new paradigm,
moving from developing proprietary code behind closed doors to developing
code that can be shared, modified and redistributed openly. Key benefits
associated with this shift is reducing development cost and software
components complexity, developing re-usable common-off-the-shelf software
assets, while increasing flexibility and using common enablers. Organizations
that embrace the open source model and follow it when it influences
positively their ways of building software, will increase their chances to
retain their competitive advantage. In this article, we review some of the
best practices to follow when taking a proprietary technology and making it
open source.
1. Open Source for the Righ... (more)
A company's decision to contribute to open source projects is usually
business-driven. This article offers a review of the top reasons that can
influence your company to contribute source code to open source or to start
new open source projects.
1. Provide a reference implementation to a standard:
Open source is a potential venue to launch reference implementations of a
specification or ... (more)
Dr. Frédéric Bénard is Engineering Manager at Motorola and leads the Open Source Software Center of Excellence, which is part of the Motorola "Embedded Systems, Open Source and Linux Technology Group". He holds a B.Sc. in Physics from McGill University, a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Toronto, and an MBA from McGill University.
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