FOSS on Government Policy, Industry Adoption, Campus Promotion and Community Development in Taiwan

Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2013
香港開源年會 2013/10/19 Sat. 14:00-14:30

FOSS on Government Policy, Industry Adoption, Campus
Promotion and Community Development in Taiwan
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Richard Lin 林旅強 (legist 強 )

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richard@citi.sinica.edu.tw

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http://about.me/richard.lin

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http://fb.me/legist

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香港開源年會 2013/10/19 Sat. 14:00-14:30

FOSS on Government Policy, Industry Adoption, Campus
Promotion and Community Development in Taiwan
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Government Policy

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Industry Adoption

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Campus Promotion

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Community Development

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Conclusion


Abstract
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During 2003 to 2013, FOSS has been playing a more
important role in government, ITC industry, school and
community in Taiwan in the decade gradually.
In this talk, I will introduce the development of FOSS
from public sector, ITC industry, academic and
educational circle, and community aspects, including the
problem and difficulty we face and the result of our work.
In addition, I also talk about the future from the
observation of the facts and context mentioned above.

About Me
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Name / Nickname
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Richard Lin 林旅強 (legist 強哥 )

Position
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Legal Specialty / Campus & Community Promoter
in OSSF, CITI, Academia Sinica
中研院資創中心自由軟體鑄造場法政研究 / 校園暨社群推廣者

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Publish (in Chinese)
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Legal Issues On OSS commercial application
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開放源碼軟體商業應用之法律爭議及其可能之解決途徑

Empowering Citizens with Data: An Open Government Data Handbook
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藏智於民：開放政府資料的原則與現況 (slides share)

About OSSF
自由軟體鑄造場 Open Source Software Foundry

What does OSSF do?
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OpenFoundry:
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a project hosting platform for FOSS developers to
upload and use the open source code and
collaborate with each other, like SourceForge,
Google Code and GitHub.

What does OSSF do?
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Out-reach & Promotion:
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Hold workshops, lectures and speeches of FOSS

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Help and foster FOSS communities in Taiwan

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Co-operate with university professors in courses of
computer science and open source

What does OSSF do?
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Who's Who:
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a FOSS developers' list where the content is filled
with by themselves

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Bi-weekly News E-letter in Chinese

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License and Policy Research and Consultation
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Deal with the questions from government,
corporations, schools, community members
Publish legal essays in OSSF legal column monthly

Abstract

Government

Academic
Institute /
Schools

Industry
Communities
Manufacturer

Disclaimer
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This slides are published by and reflects the personal
views of Richard Lin, in his individual capacity.
It does not represent the views of Taiwan
government.

Government
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Why did Taiwan government think highly of FOSS?
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No royalty of licensing
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Manufacturers need “cost down” to survive.
Schools need “cost down” to save budget.

Freedom
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Researcher need freedom to study.

Government
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What did the gov do?
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Board of Science and Technology, Executive Yuan,
BOST 行政院科技會報 ( 行政院科技顧問組 )
Academia Sinica 中央研究院
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Ministry of Economic Affairs, MOEA 經濟部
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Institute of Information Science, IIS 資訊科學研究所
Industrial Development Bureau, IDB 工業局

Institute for Information Industry, III 資訊工業策進會

Government
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National Science Council, NSC 國家科學委員會
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Current sponsor of OSSF

Academia Sinica 中央研究院
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Institute of Information Science, IIS 資訊科學研究所

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Research Center for Information Technology Innovation,
CITI 資訊科技創新研究中心

Government
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Ministry of Education, MOE 教育部
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Information Technology Software Academy, ITSA
教育部資訊軟體人才培育計畫

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OSS Application Consulting Centre, OSSACC
教育部校園自由軟體數位資源推廣服務中心

Government
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Difficulty

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Achievement

Industry Adoption
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The main industry in Taiwan is Information and
Communication Technology.
There are few software companies in Taiwan, most of
the ICT companies are OEM/ODM hardware
manufacturers.
TW companies use open source software, because we
don't want to pay license royalty instead of

Industry Adoption
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To open or not to open, that is NOT a question...

Industry Adoption
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To open or not to open, that is NOT a question...
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Until lose the cases...

Harald Welte v. D-link

2006

BusyBox v. 14 companies

2009

Harald Welte v. D-link

2006

BusyBox v. 14 companies

2009

Welte v. D-Link (2006)

Use source code

German Branch

msdosfs, initrd, mtd
1. A part of Linux kernel
2. Copyright holders:
Werner Almesberger (Austria)
David Woodhouse (UK)
Harald Welte (Germany)


Use source code

German Branch

Representative
Authorization

Ask

Harald Welte


???

Use source code

German Branch I don't know what
you're saying...

Representative
Authorization

Ask

Harald Welte


Use source code

German Branch

Representative
Authorization

Infringement

Frankfurt
District
Court
Sue

Harald Welte

All
customers

1. open source codes
2. GPL notification

Use source code

German Branch

Representative
Authorization

damages

Infringement

Frankfurt
District
Court
Sue

Harald Welte

Busybox v. 14 companies (2009)
Defenders are 14
companies
Use source code

Busybox combines tiny versions
of many common UNIX utilities
into a single small executable.
Licensed under GPL-2.0.
Copyright holder:
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Erik Anderson (US)
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Other developers

Best Buy, Samsung,
Westinghouse,
JVC, WD, Robert Bosch,
Phoebe Mircro, Humanx,
Comtrend ( 康全科技 ),
Dobbs-Standford, Versa,
Zyxel ( 合勤科技 ),
Astak, GCI

Defenders are 14
companies
Use source code

Copyright holder:
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Erik Anderson (US)
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Other developers

Defenders are 14
companies
Use source code

Copyright holder:
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Erik Anderson (US)
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Other developers

United States
District of
New York
Sue

Erik Anderson
Free Software Conservancy

Defenders are 14
companies
Use source code

1. Many upstream OEMs/ODMs
Manufacturers are Taiwan Companies.
of many common UNIX utilities companies settled out of court
2. 13
or are working with FSC.
United States
Licensed under GPL-2.0. 3. The court is ordering Westinghouse of
District to
pay $90,000 in damages and to give York
New the
Copyright holder:
HDTVs that include the BusyBox code to
Erik Anderson (US)
the Conservancy.
Sue
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Other developers

Erik Anderson
Free Software Conservancy

TW OSS Company
Training
Consulting
Outsourcing

Compatability of Licenses

© David A. Wheeler, The Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS) License Slide, September 27, 2007,
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林旅強，從 Copyleft 看自由開源軟體授權相容性

Campus Promotion of OSSF
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Workshop, speech in campus
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Collaboration with members of FOSS communities
in TW

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Technical

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Copyright & license

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Free to Join, free to learn

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Foster FOSS coders and promoters in TW

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Open source courses in university
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Partner: National Cheng Kung University, NCKU 成
功大學資工系
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Open Source Software Development and Community
Promotion 自由軟體開發與社群發展

Partner: National Chi Nan University, NCNU 暨南大
學資管系
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Open Source Application 開源軟體應用

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Conference
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Students' Information Technology Conference,
SITCON 學生計算機年會
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Partner: ITSA, SITCON community

Hackathon
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SITCON HackGen Hackathon 駭客世代黑客松
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Partner: National Cheng Chi University, NCCU 政治大學
資科系 , ITSA, SITCON community

Campus Promotion
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Government Sponsored
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ITSA, MOE
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Fairly distribute and allocate educational resource to
many universities and colleges 雨露均霑

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Taiwan Summer of Code 軟體創作達人暑期成長營

Campus Promotion
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Government Sponsored
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OSSACC, MOE
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ezgo
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http://dot.kde.org/2013/10/02/ezgo-free-and-open-source-soft
ware-taiwans-schools

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ezgo 軍師團 community

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Education edition for elementary and high school

Campus Promotion
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Self-drive
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Students' communities like SITCON

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Community members in Campus
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Jim Huang, jserv 黃敬群
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FOSS developer and entrepreneur
NCKU 成功大學資工系

Mathew Lien, BlueT, 練喆明
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National Chi Nan University, NCNU 暨南大學資管系
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Open Source Application 開源軟體應用

Communities in Taiwan
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Hacking Thursday, TOSSUG (Taipei OSS User Group),
Study Area ( 酷 ! 學園 ), Ubuntu.tw, MozTW,
Gnome.tw, WoFoss, OpenLab Taipei, EZGO, KLUG
(Kaohsiung Linux User Group), MOSUT,
OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia...
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可參考： https://ossf.hackpad.com/OSSF-KAlTM1FfNFk

More than 80% community activities are held in
Taipei.

http://moztw.org/events/moztw-lab/#location Friday night

上圖著作權非屬本簡報作者所有，係取自該社群之網站，不在本簡報創用 CC 授權範圍內，請讀者勿更行他用。

http://www.hackingthursday.org/ Every Thursday night


http://blog.tossug.org/ Tuesday night

Conferences in Taiwan
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COSCUP (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users
and Promoters, 開源人年會 )

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OSDC (Open Source Developer Conference)

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HITCON (Hacks in Taiwan Conference, 駭客年會 )

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WebConf

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JSDC (JavaScrip Developer Conference)

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PyCon (Python Conference)

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PHPConf (PHP Conference)

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RubyConf (Ruby Coference)

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FreedomHEC (Freedom Hardware Engineer
Conference)

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RubyConf

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DrupalCamp

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JS Carnival

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Firefox/Ubuntu Release Party

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MozTW 連續聚

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“Community” is a required element to build a healthy
circumstance of FOSS.
Let me tell a story about TW FOSS communities'
development in these 10 yrs.


2001
Software Liberty Association in Taiwan, SLAT

2003
Open Source Software Foundry, OSSF


2001
International Conference on Open Source, ICOS

2006
Conference for Open Source Coders,
Users and Promoters, COSCUP


2006

200- attendees



2013

1800 attendees
Tickets are sold out within 47 sec.

2006

200- attendees


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“Community” is a required element to build a healthy
circumstance of FOSS.
It's hard to build communities by government itself.
Government should incubate communities by
establishing an infrastructure.

Conclusion
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Open Source benefits everything.

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Lack of “culture of contribution” and “hacker culture”

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Community is a long-term support of FOSS.

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Open Data Movement in TW is like the past 10 yrs of
Open Source Movement.

香港開源年會 2013/10/19 Sat. 14:00-14:30

License
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This slides are licensed under creative commons –
attribution – share alike 3.0 unported.
Richard Lin (legist) 2013, FOSS on Government
Policy, Industry Adoption, Campus Promotion and
Community Development in Taiwan


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