Criticality and Nuance of Governance for Mobile Handset OS David “Lefty” Schlesinger Director, Open Source Technologies ACCESS Co., Ltd. Architectural Steering Committee, Open Source Committee Chair LiMo F o undation 3 March 2009

An Important Announcement !

An Important Announcement ! You Have Just Suffered a Failure of Governance.

An Important Announcement ! You Have Just Suffered a Failure of Governance. Sorry For The Inconvenience.

In the News! Symbian and Android Bicker Over Who’s More “Open”! “ Android is not open. It's a marketing label. It's controlled by Google.” —Lee Williams, Executive Director, Symbian Foundation “ If you're talking about a platform and the source code isn't completely available for that platform, I would say it's misleading to call that platform open.” —Rich Miner, Android Architect

“ Android is not open. It's a marketing label. It's controlled by Google.” —Lee Williams, Executive Director, Symbian Foundation

“ If you're talking about a platform and the source code isn't completely available for that platform, I would say it's misleading to call that platform open.” —Rich Miner, Android Architect

In the News! Would-be iPhone Developers Perplexed and Disgruntled! “ We spent a lot of time and money on this product. It sucks to develop an app and get it rejected for reasons that you weren't aware of.” —Patrick Alphonso, CEO, Swamiware “ Their reasons for banning us really didn't add up… After that, they pretty much stopped talking to us or returning e-mail and voicemail.” —Sam Magdalein, Air-o-matic

“ We spent a lot of time and money on this product. It sucks to develop an app and get it rejected for reasons that you weren't aware of.” —Patrick Alphonso, CEO, Swamiware

“ Their reasons for banning us really didn't add up… After that, they pretty much stopped talking to us or returning e-mail and voicemail.” —Sam Magdalein, Air-o-matic

In the News! Android Doesn’t Follow Robot’s Rules of Order! Google Bans Its Own Developers From the Android Applications Store! “ Memory Optimizing” Malware Frees Up Space by Deleting Your Data! (And It Remains to be Seen Whether You Can Give Away an iPhone in Japan!)

Google Bans Its Own Developers From the Android Applications Store!

“ Memory Optimizing” Malware Frees Up Space by Deleting Your Data!

(And It Remains to be Seen Whether You Can Give Away an iPhone in Japan!)

“ What we have here is a failure of governance!”

Governance? Governance: the management of shared resources and activities so as to (hopefully) honor and respect the desires and expectations of the stakeholders. Two kinds of governance: How a project (or a platform) is managed How a platform manages its developers The various “open” platform choices demonstrate some significant differences

Governance: the management of shared resources and activities so as to (hopefully) honor and respect the desires and expectations of the stakeholders.

Two kinds of governance:

How a project (or a platform) is managed

How a platform manages its developers

The various “open” platform choices demonstrate some significant differences

Compare and Contrast iPhone: Governance by Divine Fiat A Model Which Would Please Genghis Khan Android and Symbian: Governance by the Big Gorilla Either You’re Part of the Parade, or You’re Part of the Pavement OpenMoko: Governance by Benign Neglect “ Whatever, dude.”

iPhone: Governance by Divine Fiat

A Model Which Would Please Genghis Khan

Android and Symbian: Governance by the Big Gorilla

Either You’re Part of the Parade, or You’re Part of the Pavement

OpenMoko: Governance by Benign Neglect

“ Whatever, dude.”

LiMo is Different An internal governance model based on Open source community “best practices” Intellectual property “safe harbor”, representing a collective pool of over 300,000 patents Significant ties with the mainstream open source community Organizationally (GNOME Foundation, FSF-Europe, etc.), and via direct project work (GTK+, Gstreamer, D-Bus, BlueZ, Webkit, Clutter, etc.)

An internal governance model based on

Open source community “best practices”

Intellectual property “safe harbor”, representing a collective pool of over 300,000 patents

Significant ties with the mainstream open source community

Organizationally (GNOME Foundation, FSF-Europe, etc.), and via direct project work (GTK+, Gstreamer, D-Bus, BlueZ, Webkit, Clutter, etc.)

LiMo is Different Shared fixes and optimizations ensuring continual improvement “ Code talks”, members are equal partners, code is effectively collectively owned and maintained Open Source technologies are used responsibly and responsively LiMo Open Source policy is published on the Foundation’s site

Shared fixes and optimizations ensuring continual improvement

“ Code talks”, members are equal partners, code is effectively collectively owned and maintained

Open Source technologies are used responsibly and responsively

LiMo Open Source policy is published on the Foundation’s site

Broad and Deep Industry Engagement Board Members (Founder) Board Members (Core) Approaching 1 Billion subscribers managed by carrier members

Core + Associate Members Broad and Deep Industry Engagement

LiMo is Different for Developers, Too Familiar development models, tools and practices A robust, policy-based security model Increasing reach of the platform More handsets, more APIs Moving toward an open development platform, with “consumer protection” in a phased approach

Familiar development models, tools and practices

A robust, policy-based security model

Increasing reach of the platform

More handsets, more APIs

Moving toward an open development platform, with “consumer protection” in a phased approach

Thank you!