This document provides an overview of a presentation about free libre open source software (FLOSS). The presentation discusses the ethics of software freedom, different software and development models, and various business models for FLOSS. It provides examples of successful FLOSS projects like Linux, Firefox, OpenOffice, Drupal, and others. The presentation addresses why FLOSS is not used more widely and argues that its total cost of ownership can be lower than closed source software.
Free Libre Open Source Software - Business aspects of software industryFrederik Questier
F. Questier, Free Libre Open Source Software - Guest Lecture for the course Business Aspects of Software Industry of Prof. M. Goldchstein and Prof. T. Crispeels, with students from management science, computer science and civil engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (17/04/13)
F. Questier, Free and open source software, workshop for Lib@web international training program 'Management of Electronic Information and Digital Libraries', university of Antwerp, October 2015
F. Questier, Ressources éducatives libres & droits d’auteurs, presented in the e-formation “Réussir l’enseignement à distance : de la scénarisation à l’évaluation” de l’Erasmus Academy, 1st of July 2020
Free Libre Open Source Software - Business aspects of software industryFrederik Questier
F. Questier, Free Libre Open Source Software - Guest Lecture for the course Business Aspects of Software Industry of Prof. M. Goldchstein and Prof. T. Crispeels, with students from management science, computer science and civil engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (17/04/13)
F. Questier, Free and open source software, workshop for Lib@web international training program 'Management of Electronic Information and Digital Libraries', university of Antwerp, October 2015
F. Questier, Ressources éducatives libres & droits d’auteurs, presented in the e-formation “Réussir l’enseignement à distance : de la scénarisation à l’évaluation” de l’Erasmus Academy, 1st of July 2020
In the give presentation I have tried to explain the what is OPEN SOURCE(Open Source Software, Open Hardware,Open Content ) and various Licenses. Any suggestions, improvements and comments are most welcome
In the presentation I have tried to cover the Evolution of Linux as an Operating System. The most of the content used is freely available on Internet , I have just tried to streamline it and summarize it as cleanly as possible from my point of view. Any improvements, suggestions, comments are most welcom.
Introduction to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)Dong Calmada
An attempt to orient the unconverted and the semi-converted on the history and benefits of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Created for the PANACeA FOSS training in Bangkok (Feb 2010).
"True Stories from Open Source" by Danese Cooper @ eLiberatica 2009eLiberatica
This is a presentation held at eLiberatica 2009.
http://www.eliberatica.ro/2009/
One of the biggest events of its kind in Eastern Europe, eLiberatica brings community leaders from around the world to discuss about the hottest topics in FLOSS movement, demonstrating the advantages of adopting, using and developing Open Source and Free Software solutions.
The eLiberatica organizational committee together with our speakers and guests, have graciously allowed media representatives and all attendees to photograph, videotape and otherwise record their sessions, on the condition that the photos, videos and recordings are licensed under the Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0 License.
In the give presentation I have tried to explain the what is OPEN SOURCE(Open Source Software, Open Hardware,Open Content ) and various Licenses. Any suggestions, improvements and comments are most welcome
In the presentation I have tried to cover the Evolution of Linux as an Operating System. The most of the content used is freely available on Internet , I have just tried to streamline it and summarize it as cleanly as possible from my point of view. Any improvements, suggestions, comments are most welcom.
Introduction to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)Dong Calmada
An attempt to orient the unconverted and the semi-converted on the history and benefits of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Created for the PANACeA FOSS training in Bangkok (Feb 2010).
"True Stories from Open Source" by Danese Cooper @ eLiberatica 2009eLiberatica
This is a presentation held at eLiberatica 2009.
http://www.eliberatica.ro/2009/
One of the biggest events of its kind in Eastern Europe, eLiberatica brings community leaders from around the world to discuss about the hottest topics in FLOSS movement, demonstrating the advantages of adopting, using and developing Open Source and Free Software solutions.
The eLiberatica organizational committee together with our speakers and guests, have graciously allowed media representatives and all attendees to photograph, videotape and otherwise record their sessions, on the condition that the photos, videos and recordings are licensed under the Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0 License.
The Development of Open Source E-Learning Environments: the Chamilo ExperienceFrederik Questier
F. Questier, The development of Open Source e-learning environments: the Chamilo experience, guest lecture at Beijing Normal University, School of Educational Technology, Beijing, China, 21/10/2010
The presentation contains some basic history of foss and it discuses cathedral vs bazaar model.
At last it discuses some current foss developments in india. Feel free to download and share and modify to make it more useful for everyone.
Presentation mainly deals with Open Source and how Os projects work? Who does it? Why they do it? Why you should contribute to Open Source? Different ways of contribution.
Acceptance model for Free Open Source Software in (Flemish) schoolsFrederik Questier
F. Questier, S. Froeliger, Acceptance model for Free Open Source Software in (Flemish) schools, 37th Annual Conference of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe, Turkey, August 2012
A Roadmap for Students Using FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) and Reachin...PK Mishra
The talk opens with the usefulness of Open Source Software in the context of evolution of UNIX and Linux. It goes on to suggest and agenda for students who can enhance their abilities and contribute towards making themselves and India self-reliant. A few useful suggestions as action points have also been made.
Cite as: F. Questier, Open learning, Experiences from the MarMOOC project, Presented at University of Hasselt, Belgium, August 2018, VLIR-UOS international workshop interoperability between information platforms.
Authentication options for Open edX: focus on OAuth and OpenIDFrederik Questier
F. Questier, Authentication options for Open edX: focus on OAuth and OpenID, presentation for the Erasmus+ MarMOOC project, Universidade de Vigo, Spain, 04/04/2018
F. Questier, MOOCs & Openness. Les aspects ouverts des MOOC: clé pour un processus d'apprentissage réussi. Présenté à Université Ibn Tofaïl, Kénitra, Maroc, Avril 2017; Presented at Universidad de Vigo, May 2017
Free Libre And Open Source Software Acceptance in The Cuban Higher Educationa...Frederik Questier
A. Lemus, F. Questier, F. Ciudad, Free Libre and Open Source Software Acceptance in the Cuban Higher Educational System, Tenth International Congress on Higher Education, Universidad 2016, Cuba.
Students' Experiential Knowledge Production in the Teaching-Learning Process ...Frederik Questier
D. Benítez-Erice, F. Questier, D. Pérez-Luján, Students Experiential Knowledge Production in the Teaching-Learning Process of Universities, Proceedings of 16th European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM 2015, pp. 132-14, ISBN 978-1-910810-47-7
Challenges for 21st century education and blended learningFrederik Questier
F. Questier, Challenges for 21st century education and blended learning; Lecture for Masterclass professionele ontwerpteams, Associatie KU Leuven, 12/02/15 https://associatie.kuleuven.be/events/mcpot/programma
F. Questier, (Disruptive) innovations: education and society, lecture for Chinese Summerschool 'European languages, culture and educational systems', Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 07/07/2014
ICT-Competenties ethische kwesties en relatie met onderzoekscompetentiesFrederik Questier
F. Questier, ICT-Competenties: ethische kwesties en relatie met onderzoekscompetenties, presentation at IDLO studie en ontmoetingsdag 12/03/2014, Brussels
E-learning and Open Educational Resources - primer for librariesFrederik Questier
F. Questier, E-learning and OER - primer for libraries, workshop for Lib@web international training program 'Management of Electronic Information and Digital Libraries', university of Antwerp, November 2015
F. Questier, Computer security, workshop for Lib@web international training program 'Management of Electronic Information and Digital Libraries', university of Antwerp, October 2015
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
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Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
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UiPath integration with generative AI
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Free Libre Open Source Software - Business Aspects of Software Industry
1. Free Libre
Open Source Software
Prof. dr. Frederik Questier
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Guest Lecture for the course
Business Aspects
of Software Industry
19th of May 2011
2. This presentation can be found at
http://questier.com
http://www.slideshare.net/Frederik_Questier
3.
4. Contents
➢ Ethics
➢ Software model
➢ Development model
➢ Business models
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5. Our social responsibility:
how open is the future?
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6. Early software days
➢ In the 1950s and into the 1960s almost all software
was produced by computer science academics and
corporate researchers working in collaboration.
➢ Source code was generally distributed with the
software
➢ IBM “SHARE” user group
➢ Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society (DECUS)
Source code: if encrypt(password) == encryptedpassword, then login=1, end
Compiled code: 00100101110101001100110000111101100011000111000110101
8. "The most fundamental
way of helping other
people,
is to teach people
how to do things better
or how to better their
lives.
For people
who use computers,
this means sharing
the recipes
you use on your
computer,
in other words
the programs you run."
8
9. 1980's: RMS defined
“Free Software”
➢ The freedom to
➢ use
➢ study
➢ distribute
➢ improve
the program
9
10. Free Software Licenses
➢ The freedoms are guaranteed and enforced by licenses,
e.g.
➢ GNU GPL (General Public License)
➢ The 4 freedoms + copyleft (share alike)
➢ if binary offered, source code must be offered too
➢ (on request, at low cost)
➢ must stay GPL.
➢ BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution)
➢ Attribution
➢ No copyleft requirements for distribution
➢ BSD code often in closed source software (MS, Mac, ...)
➢ Apple Public Source License v2
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12. Different kinds of software
➢ Proprietary software (closed source – 'commercial')
➢ $$$
➢ Shareware
➢ x days for free, afterwards $
➢ Adware
➢ for free, with ads
➢ Freeware
➢ for free (small projects and often spyware!)
➢ Free Software / Open Source Software
➢ Free as in Freedom, not as in free beer
➢ OSS, FOSS, FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software)
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13. 1991 comp sci
student
Usenet posting to the
newsgroup
"comp.os.minix.":
“I'm doing a (free)
operating system (just a
hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for
386(486) AT clones.”
16. "Congratulations, you're on the winning team.
Linux has crossed the chasm to mainstream adoption."
➢ Jeffrey Hammond, principal analyst at Forrester Research,
LinuxCon, 2010
“Linux has come to dominate almost every category of
computing, with the exception of the desktop”
➢ Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation Executive Director, 2011
24. ➢ Compatible with MS Office
➢ Cross-platform (Win, Linux, Mac, ...)
➢ Open document Format (ODF)
➢ XML based, OASIS & ISO standard
➢ PDF & Flash export
➢ Bibliographic manager
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28. Drupal
Content Management Platform
➢ Powers 2% of websites
➢ USA White House, MTV UK, Sony Music, Al Jazeera, ...
➢ 1111 themes
➢ 9732 modules
➢ 7815 developers
➢ 1M registered users on drupal.org
➢ 2M/month unique visitors on drupal.org
29.
30. ➢ Founded 2007
➢ $23.5 million venture capital
➢ 700 enterprise customers
➢ 109 employees
➢ quarterly revenue increased 300 percent
between the first quarters of 2010 and 2011
32. 1998: how it started
➢ In a Belgian University
➢ many people were frustrated
by the inflexible, non-free elearning systems
they had to use
➢ Prof. dr. Thomas Depraetere
➢ starts the Claroline e-learning platform
➢ publishes it as Free Software
➢ got grants for it
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33. 2004: fork 1
original author wants to break free
➢ Growing number of users
➢ outside the university
➢ requesting professional services
➢ Prof. dr. Thomas Depraetere
➢ starts a company, Dokeos
➢ can't call it Claroline, cause university has trademark
➢ can reuse software code, as it is Free !!!
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38. Build and Manage
a Community?
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39. Development
Linus Torvalds' style
release early and often
delegate everything you can
be open to the point of promiscuity
Linus' Law
"given enough eyeballs,
all bugs are shallow."
39
40. Book published under
Open Publication License
19 lessons for open source
development
Commercial development
= Cathedral style
Open Source development
= Bazaar style
40
41. The Cathedral and the Bazaar
about developers
1. Every good work of software
starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.
2. Good programmers know what to write.
Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
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42. The Cathedral and the Bazaar
about users
6. Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle
route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.
7. Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.
8. Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base,
almost every problem will be characterized quickly
and the fix obvious to someone.
11. The next best thing to having good ideas is
recognizing good ideas from your users.
Sometimes the latter is better.
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43. The Cathedral and the Bazaar
about development
17. A security system is only as secure as its secret.
Beware of pseudo-secrets.
18. To solve an interesting problem,
start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.
19. Provided the development coordinator
has a medium at least as good as the Internet,
and knows how to lead without coercion,
many heads are inevitably better than one.
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44. FLOSS characteristics
User friendly ← written by users for users
Cross-platform ← recompile source code
High development pace ← reuse of best modules
High quality ← peer review, reuse = survival of the fittest
High security ← peer review, Unix origin, modular, encryption
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47. Business ?
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48. Gartner:
“24% of software market”
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49. Study on Economic impact
Study on the Economic impact of open source software on innovation
and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU, 2006, R.A. Ghosh, UNU-MERIT, NL.
et al., 287 pp.
➢
FLOSS applications are 1st, 2nd, 3rd in many markets
➢ High market penetration
➢ 65% written by individuals, 15% companies, 20% other
institutions
➢ FLOSS code base = $12B
➢ FLOSS code base = 131000 programmers years
➢ FLOSS code base doubles every 18-24 months
➢ Proprietary software firms only responsible for 10% of
total software developers, so no cannibalisation fear
➢ FLOSS can save companies 36% on R&D costs
➢ Unique (European) opportunities to create new software
businesses
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50. Study on Economic impact
Study on the Economic impact of open source software on innovation
and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU, 2006, R.A. Ghosh, UNU-MERIT, NL.
et al., 287 pp.
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51. Study on Economic impact
Study on the Economic impact of open source software on innovation
and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU, 2006, R.A. Ghosh, UNU-MERIT, NL.
et al., 287 pp.
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52. "Open Source: Why Freedom
Makes a Better Business Model"
Mårten Mickos, CEO MySQL, 2009
➢ FLOSS
➢ is
➢ not against ownership
➢ not anti-commercial
➢ not a business model
➢ but is
➢ a smarter way to produce the goods
➢ a smarter way to distribute the goods
➢ Differentiation!
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53. Success in FLOSS requires you to serve
➢ those who spend time to save money
➢ those who spend money to save time
-- Mårten Mickos, CEO MySQL
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54. "Open Source: Why Freedom
Makes a Better Business Model"
Mårten Mickos, CEO MySQL, 2009
➢ Software freedom allows you to tap
into innovation power and network effects
otherwise not available
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55. Creating wealth by sharing
"Seven open source business strategies for competitive advantage”
John Koenig, IT Manager's Journal, 2004
“Companies continue to
waste their development
dollars on software
functionality that is
otherwise free and
available through Open
Source. They persist in
buying third-party
proprietary platforms or
creating their own
proprietary development
platforms that deliver
marginal product
differentiation and limited
value to customers”
Picture reproduced with permission
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60. business models
www.flossmetrics.org/ 2009
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61. The possible effects
Example: extremadura
➢ poorly developed region → economic revival
➢ based on FLOSS (customized GNU/LinEx)
➢ computer access for every student
➢ saved >18M € on initial 80,000 school computers
➢ total software cost: 1.08 Euro/PC/year
➢ bigger project
➢ stimuli for companies, centres for citizens
➢ economic revival -> European regional innovation award
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62. Reflection task
➢ Why would you open source your (company) software?
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63. Joachim
Henkel,
2004
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64. What are problems with
closed source software?
➢ No (external) quality control on the source code
➢ Backdoors?
➢ Combined with secret formats → data lock-in
➢ Vendor lock-in
➢ Monopolies and abuse of it
➢ Security through obscurity does not work
➢ Worse ratio black hat / white hat security people
➢ Non-paying users are called “pirates”
➢ Slow bug fixing
➢ No shared efforts means wasted efforts
➢ Less incremental innovation
➢ Burden of
➢ license management
➢ anti-copy measures
65. Why is FLOSS
not used more?
➢ Anti-competitive behaviour of closed source companies
➢ Monopoly abuse
➢ Secret formats & protocols
➢ Data lock-in
➢ Vendor lock-in
➢ Not a lot of advertising
➢ Not a lot of teaching
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66. Total Cost of Ownership
➢ Free Software is about freedom, not price
➢ In practice: zero cost acquisition
➢ Support is similar or cheaper because of competition
➢ No license management / procurement needed
➢ Cheaper hardware can be used
➢ Less administration work
➢ Bandwidth savings (local central update/software repository)
➢ Training
➢ Usability tests
➢ {MS Windows XP → Vista} = {MS Windows → Linux}
➢ {MS Office 2003 → 2007} > {MS Office 2003 → OpenOffice}
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67. Where to find more
FLOSS?
➢ Use your software package manager
➢ if your are using a Free and Open Operating System!
➢ Sourceforge.net
➢ Hosting and tools for >240K Open Source projects
➢ >2M registered users (contributors)
➢ Freshmeat.net
➢ >40.000 projects, mostly Free Software
➢ Google: x AND GPL OR “open source”
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68. Where to find more
FLOSS?
➢ http://livecdlist.com/
➢ If you want to test software without installing
➢ http://www.theopendisc.com/
➢ High Quality OSS for Windows: Firefox, Openoffice,
Inkscape, Scribus, Clamwin, GIMP, Audacity, Filezilla, 7-
zip, PDFCreator, Freemind, ...
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69. Open Society?
➢ "How open is the future?
Future Economic, Social & Cultural Scenarios
based on Free & Open Source Software"
Book: Eds. M. Wynants & J. Cornelis (Crosstalks)
Open Courseware and
Open Scientific Publications
Chapter: F. Questier, W. Schreurs
Openly published under CCPL
See questier.com, crosstalks.vub.ac.be
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71. Questions? Comments?
Thanks!
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72. Credits
➢ Cartoon Open Source Fish by openssoft
➢ Photo Gears: Ralphbijker @ Flickr (CC-by)
➢ T-Shirt “Best things are life are free” by http://zazzle.com
➢ Photo Linus Torvalds: GFDL. Permission of Martin Streicher, Editor-in-
Chief, LINUXMAG.com
➢ Picture (open source business strategies) from IT Manager's Journal,
may 2004, with personal permission from John Koenig
➢ Drupalcon DC 2009 copyright by “Chris” (Flickr)
➢ Screenshot Acquia
➢ Screenshot http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/
➢ Screenshot https://developers.facebook.com/opensource/
Screenshot ohloh.net
➢ Screenshot Google
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