My talk from WordCamp Ahmedabad 2017 where I imagined how different the world will be without Open Source software.

1. Life Without Open Source
Hardeep Asrani

2. What is Open Source?

3. A not so long time ago in the galaxy
where we live…

4. Richard
Stallman
The guy who was frustrated
with a printer.

5. Again, what is Open Source?

6. Open Source refers to a program in
which the source code is available to
the general public for use and/or
modification from its original design
free of charge.

7. Open Source is a
philosophy and a
movement.

8. Open Source != Free Software.

9. The word "free" does not
refer to price; it refers to
freedom.

10. “Think ‘free speech,’ not
‘free beer.’
-Richard Stallman

11. Four Freedoms of Free Software

12. 0. Freedom to run the
program as you wish.

13. 1. Freedom to study the
source code of the program
and make changes.

14. 2. Freedom to help your
neighbour. That’s the
freedom to redistribute.

15. 3. Freedom to contribute to your
community. That’s the freedom
to distribute copies or modified
versions when you wish.

16. What if Free Software
Movement never
existed?

17. We all will be using
Proprietary software.

18. Proprietary software is bad
because the user does not
control it; instead, the
software controls the user.

19. No control over the software.

20. No way to see the
source code.

21. No rights even after you
pay.

22. With a limited number of
eyes, the growth will be slow.

23. Hard to Adopt

24. Cost Implication

25. Can you put a price on
WordPress?

26. And without Open Source,
would you be here at
WordCamp Ahmedabad?

27. Thank You
Twitter:@HardeepAsrani
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