Open Source in Mobile

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

Maintenance is the
biggest cost in the TCO of
Community Open Source
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Working with open source is a
sophisticated supply chain
management problem ...
... not rocket science.

Meritocracy
evaluators
users
contributing users
contributing developers
committers
Increasing technical steering group
involvement
(benevolent) dictator

The future

Convergence

Platforms

Developers
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Thank you!