Years ago open source was considered unsuitable for the mainstream. We had Windows, didn’t we? Times have changed, we all use open source these days, but often don’t know it. So, let’s take a closer look at open source.

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Jane Chakravorty - Invicta Linux

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Tonight’s outline
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How we got here
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What is open source?
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Why do we need it?
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A few facts about it
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How are we using it?
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Spreading the love
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What next?
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Q’s & (quite possibly)A’s

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image borrowed from the very disturbed xkcd.com

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The good old 90s, eh?
https://dev.to/codesharedot/little-linux-flashback-90s-27mg

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One of our great leaders...
Richard Stallman (RMS) founder of the Free Software Foundation

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What is open source?
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FOSS stands for Free and Open Source Software.
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Non-profit foundation.
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Open source means coders share that code.
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Community, stable and commercial licences are often
available.
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The “Free” in FOSS means “Freedom.”

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Why do we need open source?
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CERN build their own private cloud on open source.
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Open source licensing encourages innovation through
collaboration.
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Without it, many of the technologies we take for granted
today would never have been developed.
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Linus Torvalds has changed our world.
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Tim Berners-Lee gave us the http protocol.
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Geeks built a ‘patchy’ server which grew into the Apache
Foundation.
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It is the combination of many like minds that has got us here
today.

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Duty calls
image borrowed from the very disturbed xkcd.com

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Open source: the core
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We all share the values of open source.
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It’s philosophy has always existed.
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The Open Source community is global.
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Poor code is found and corrected far quicker than
with propriety software.
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Due to the transparency, malicious code is harder
to hide.
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Its transparency is its strength.

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Open source: the core
"We believe that applying the open-source philosophy to our
patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla's position”.
Copyleft provides a method for software or
documentation to be modified by the
community.

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The future: machine learning
image borrowed from the very disturbed xkcd.com

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Open source: servers

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Open source: desktop
Glimpse

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Open source: more stuff

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Growing together
image borrowed from the very disturbed xkcd.com

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Spreading the love
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Change is surprisingly simple.
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Carry on working while updates are applied.
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No need to log in to any accounts.
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Linux is powerful, fast and stable. It’s also extremely flexible and private.
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Linux is the sustainable OS, helping to bridge the digital divide and extend the
life of hardware, making it an eco-friendly choice. And open source powers
the United Nations' sustainability development goals.

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Open source: what next?

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Open source: what next?
“A large company will adopt Linux as its desktop of choice
You betcha. This is going to happen. ... This has been building for some
time. And with the Windows 11 hardware requirements, some
businesses are going to finally see the light that is open-source and
Linux. The desktop of choice will most likely be Ubuntu, and the rollout
will be so smooth it will go almost unnoticed.
… Once the company realizes how much more productive and cost-
effective Linux can be on the desktop, the decision will be a no-brainer.”
Jack Wallen
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/open-source-predictions-for-2022/

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Open source: what next?
image borrowed from the very disturbed xkcd.com

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Open source: now!!!

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image borrowed from the very disturbed xkcd.com