Open source in mobile

Open Source in Mobile

Hi, I’m Andrew. http://www.andrewsavory.com/blog/ andrew.savory@limofoundation.org asavory@apache.org twitter @savs

The dim & distant past

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The present

3 Mobile OSS Economic Drivers

3 Mobile OSS Economic Drivers Reduced cost of acquisition of software

3 Mobile OSS Economic Drivers Reduced cost of acquisition of software Reduced cost of access to innovation

3 Mobile OSS Economic Drivers Reduced cost of acquisition of software Reduced cost of access to innovation Reduced cost of ownership of software

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... reduced cost of ownership ... ... collaboration with OSS projects for maintenance of community software ...

Maintenance is the biggest cost in the TCO of Community Open Source Software

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Product code Upstream open source Forking

Product code Internal “fork” Upstream open source Forking

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Where an open mobile platform is already using key open source projects of Mobile critical importance, there is direct economic value in Open Source constructive engagement with Economic Analysis the corresponding open source communities. LiMo Foundation White Paper August 2009 ™ ™ White Paper 1 blog.limofoundation.org/index.php/LiMo-Foundation/Mining-of-Open-Source-Code-to-Understand-the-Economics-of-Using-Open-Source-Within-Mobile.html www.google.com/search?q=limo+blog+mal+economic+analysis

Maintenance is the biggest cost in the TCO of Community Open Source Software... Product code Internal “fork” Upstream open source

Maintenance is the biggest cost in the TCO of Community Open Source Software... Product code Internal “fork” Upstream open source “unleveraged potential”

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Working with open source is a sophisticated supply chain management problem ... ... not rocket science.

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The future

Convergence

Platforms

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Open source in mobile

by Andrew Savory on Jun 14, 2010

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