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Stephen Walli

Beijing: Economic Development and the China Africa Summit (From Jan 2007)

[srw — I refer to this blog post every once in a while that I wrote almost 15 years ago after my first proper visit to Beijing. The old…

10 min readDec 7, 2022

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Third China Africa Summit Billboard

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Stephen Walli

Rules for Cooperative Efforts

I first got involved in balloting in a standards effort in 1988. Over the subsequent 30+ years, I have done a lot of work in and around…

7 min readMar 29, 2022

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Rules for Cooperative Efforts

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Stephen Walli

Software Freedom in a Post Open Source World

(Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Software Freedom)

8 min readFeb 2, 2020

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Software Freedom in a Post Open Source World

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Stephen Walli

Open Source Challenges in New Industry Spaces

I have the privilege of having been invited to participate in the LF Energy Summit here in Paris early November. As I read more about the…

7 min readNov 4, 2019

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Open Source Challenges in New Industry Spaces

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Stephen Walli

Sustaining Open Source Software

The ‘open source sustainability’ debate continues with yet-another-company relicensing their product away from an open source license to…

18 min readJan 8, 2019

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Sustaining Open Source Software

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Stephen Walli

There is Still NO Open Source Business Model

I wrote a blog post two years ago called There is NO Open Source Business Model. In it, I argued that open source software is really about…

8 min readOct 17, 2018

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There is Still NO Open Source Business Model

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“Every evangelist of yesteryear is now a Community Manager ….”

OH: “Every evangelist of yesteryear is now a Community Manager … at least on their biz card.”

3 min readApr 21, 2017

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Ask Not What Your Community Can Do For You

During his inaugural speech on Jan. 20, 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy uttered the challenge, “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not…

4 min readApr 12, 2017

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Ask Not What Your Community Can Do For You

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Stephen Walli

There is NO Open Source Business Model

Preface: It has been brought to my attention by friends and trusted advisors that a valid interpretation of my point below is that open…

8 min readOct 25, 2016

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Stephen Walli

Running Linux Apps on Windows (and other stupid human tricks) Part II

In Part I, I laid out the why and how of OpenNT as a portability solution for UNIX/Linux applications to Windows NT, the early days of the…

8 min readApr 13, 2016

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Stephen Walli

Stephen Walli

Tech exec, Founder, Writer, Open Source Advocate, Software Business Consultant, working at Microsoft (again!) in the Azure Office of the CTO

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