This document discusses the benefits of free and open source software (FOSS) for community and social development. It defines FOSS as software that provides users with freedom and control, unlike proprietary software where users merely purchase licenses. The document uses examples like Sahana (disaster management), OpenMRS (medical records), and CHITS (community health tracking) to show how FOSS developed in developing countries can be customized, shared freely, and help build technical capacity when communities have access to source code and permissions to use, modify and distribute the software.

1. FOSS and Social Development
Technology for community and society
FOSS ug ang Pagpalambo sa Katawhan
Teknolohiya alang sa katilingban
By Dominique Gerald M. Cimafranca
villageidiotsavant.com
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2. What do we mean when we say
Free Software?
Unsa man ang pagsabot kanato sa
Free Software?

3. Free as in Libre ingun nga
Free Beer Walay Bayad
Free as in Libre ingun nga
Free Speech Luwas...
Freedom Lingkawas...
Dili Ulipon...

4. Free Software Definition
● Freedom to run the program for any purpose
● Freedom to study how the program works, and
to change it to make it do what you wish
● Freedom to redistribute copies so you can help
your neighbor
● Freedom to distribute copies of your modified
versions to others

5. Free Software Definition
● Kaluwasan alang pag gamit sa program para sa
maski unsang katuyoan
● Kaluwasan alang ton-an ang programa, ug
kulitugon alang mahimo ang gusto nimo
himoon
●
Kaluwasan alang ipakopya sa ubang tawo ang
program
●
Kaluwasan alang paghatag sa imong nahimo
gikan sa program adto sa ubang tawo

6. But what does it really mean?
Unsa man giyod kunuhay ang
pulos ani?

7. Imagine...
You get a notebook from Nakakuha ka ug kwaderno
me gikan kanako
BUT PERO
you don't actually get to dili giyod mahimong
own the notebook. imoha ang kwaderno.
I still own it. I only give Ako gihiyapon ang
you permission to use it tagiya. Gipagamit lang ka
and only for writing. ug alang lang sa pagsulat.

8. Do you think it's funny?
But that's how the proprietary
software industry works!
You don't own the
software; you only have
a license to use it.
Dili ikaw ang tagiya sa
software; gitugtan
lamang ka nga gamiton.

9. Item 8 of Windows 7 EULA
SCOPE OF LICENSE. The software is licensed, not sold. This agreement only gives you
some rights to use the features included in the software edition you licensed. The
manufacturer or installer and Microsoft reserve all other rights. Unless applicable law
gives you more rights despite this limitation, you may use the software only as expressly
permitted in this agreement. In doing so, you must comply with any technical limitations
in the software that only allow you to use it in certain ways. You may not:
work around any technical limitations in the software;
reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, except and only to the
extent that applicable law expressly permits, despite this limitation;
use components of the software to run applications not running on the software;
make more copies of the software than specified in this agreement or allowed by
applicable law, despite this limitation;
publish the software for others to copy;
rent, lease or lend the software; or
use the software for commercial software hosting services.

10. Unsa'y mahitabo aning pamaagi?
“Microsoft is helping the Russian government crack down against dissidents under the
guise of anti-piracy efforts, according to the New York Times. The wide-ranging attacks
target advocacy groups and opposition newspapers, with Microsoft lawyers providing cover
for the Russian authorities, the newspaper charges.
“The article says that Russian police have raided dozens of advocacy groups and
opposition newspapers, claiming that they are looking for pirated Microsoft software,
under false pretenses. The police take away computers, whether or not software has
been pirated, and have even torn stickers off computers showing that Microsoft software
has been legitimately purchased. The groups are then left without the use of computers,
and prosecuted. The Times notes:
“As the ploy grows common, the authorities are receiving key assistance from an
unexpected partner: Microsoft itself. In politically tinged inquiries across Russia, lawyers
retained by Microsoft have staunchly backed the police.”
http://blogs.computerworld.com/16931/is_microsoft_helping_russia_crack_down_on_dissidents

11. What happens when software is free?
Unsa man ang mahitabo kung ikaw
tagaan ug lingkawas sa imong
software?

12. Sahana
Disaster
management system
Developed in Sri
Lanka in 2004
Used in several
disaster areas
Maintained by global
team of developers
Free Software

13. Sahana in Davao
No-cost for software
Customization and
localization
Sharing of ideas
Understanding of
best practices
Capability building

14. OpenMRS
Electronic medical
records system
Conceived in Kenya
in 2004
Initially used for
HIV and TB
management
Used in 23
developing
countries
Free Software

15. CHITS
Community Health
Information
Tracking System
Barangay-level
health centers
Developed by UP
Manila – National
Telehealth Center
in 2004
Free Software

16. Kabahin sa pinulongan...

17. Adunay pangutana?
Any questions?

18. Dugang basahonon
●
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
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http://www.microsoft.com/About/Legal/EN/US/IntellectualProperty/UseTerms/De
fault.aspx
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http://teaching.hfoss.org/index.php/Main_Page
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http://sahanafoundation.org
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http://openmrs.org/
●
http://www.chits.ph/
●
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292246
●
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Languages
●
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/