John Mark Walker

418 points

Massachusetts

John Mark Walker is Fannie Mae's Open Source Program Office Director and a long-time open source community, product, and strategy expert. He founded the Open Source Enterprise Network (OSEN) and is an advisor for Glyptodon, Inc.

Follow his adventures and escapades on Twitter at @jm_stuff. For OSEN updates, see @osenetwork.

You can also contact him on LinkedIn.

John Mark is a regular speaker on the Open Source conference circuit and has written a number of articles on "Open Source Business Models Considered Harmful" and "It Was Never About Innovation".

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Authored Content

How to sell open source software

A case study from Glyptodon, Inc., an open source remote desktop solution.

Challenges to expect when open sourcing your SaaS business

Moving your SaaS business to an open source model is challenging, but the ROI could be worth the effort. Here's what you need to know.

How to decide whether to open source your SaaS solution

Should a SaaS provider open source its primary platform, and if so, what is the best way to do it?

It's the ecosystem, stupid

With so much innovation happening in open source projects, why not take advantage of it across your product and supply chain?

Be the open source supply chain

Learn why you should be a supply chain influencer.

Open source and the software supply chain

How do you manage resources for building software made by the open source community?

Authored Comments

johnmark

7 Nov 2016

'Open source' is not 'free software'

Oh right - that should have said, you can't modify and redistribute without sharing your changes in source form. At least in so far as "distributing" or "conveying" software is defined by the GPL v2 and v3.