Introduction to Free and Open Source Software

1. Introduction to Free and Open Source Software
Jaganadh G
Project Lead NLP R&D
365Media Pvt. Ltd.
jaganadhg@gmail.com
365Corporate Solutions LLP,
Coimbatore
22 January 2011
Jaganadh G Introduction to Free and Open Source Software

2. Introduction
FOSS
Free and open-source software (F/OSS, FOSS) or free/libre/open-source
software (FLOSS) is software that is liberally licensed to grant the right
of users to use, study, change, and improve its design through the
availability of its source code.
In the context of free and open source software, free refers to the
freedom to copy and re-use the software, rather than to the price of the
software. The Free Software Foundation, an organization that advocates
the free software model, suggests that, to understand the concept, one
should ”think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer”.
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3. History
In 1950’s,60’s and 70’s there was freedom of computing
Late 90’s the scenario changed
In the 1970s AT&T distributed early versions of UNIX. 1979 they
started selling
In 1983, Richard Stallman launched the GNU Project
In 1989, the first version of the GNU General Public License was
published
The Linux kernel, started by Linus Torvalds, was released as freely
modifiable source code in 1991. It was based on AST’s Minix
1998: Open Source Initiative(OSI) founded.
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4. FOSS Development Model
The FOSS development model is called ”Bazzar” model
Internet driven development
Community Driven development ans support
Jaganadh G Introduction to Free and Open Source Software

5. Open Source Philosophy and Other fields
The FOSS philosophy has been influenced by other fields also
Open Document Format
Open Movie
Open Access Journal
Open Books ......................
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6. Why Open Source should come to Education?
Jaganadh G Introduction to Free and Open Source Software

7. Open Source Initiatives in Coimbatore
Anna University Coimbatore Introduces FOSS in the Syallabus
Corporates in Coimbatore adopts FOSS (Including 365Media)
Indian Linux User’s Group Coimbatore started
http://ilugcbe.techstud.org
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8. Questions ??
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9. Finally
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