The conference discusses the significance of open source, open systems, and open standards in fostering innovation and competitiveness. It emphasizes a community-driven approach to create wealth and achieve interoperability while ensuring accessibility through open formats. The insights highlight the role of these elements in achieving digital sustainability.

1. Open Systems, Innovation, and
Competitiveness
International Scientific Conference
“Research&Development as the Basis for Innovation in
Creating the Competitive Region“
Podgorica, Montenegro, 12—13 Nov. 2010
Dr. rer. nat. Hellmuth Broda
Dr. Hellmuth Broda Consulting, Basel
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2. What Everybody Tells You
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3. Three Faces of Open
Open Open
Open
Systems Standards
Source
= =
= Competitiveness
Opportunity Inter- (for industry)
(for developers) operability and Choice
(for users)
(for industry)
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4. Who Benefits?
Open Source
=
Opportunity
(for developers)
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5. What is Open Source?
Using Shared Resources to Solve Needs and Create
Wealth
• Distribute binaries and source code
• Freely modifiable and re-distributable
• Non-discriminatory
• Consensus driven projects
• Meritocracy
• Peer review and public discussion
• OK to make money - but not for access to code
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6. Joy's Law
Innovation will happen,
and it will happen
Somewhere Else
Bill Joy
Aspen Institute
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7. Open Source in a Nutshell
 A community of developers
• Learning from each other
• Sharing a code commons
• Protecting the commoms
• Creating “wealth” from
the commons
• Enriching the commons
in the process
 The guild model re-discovered?
 Using the commons, the young can “stand on the
shoulders of the elders”
 “Wiki” for softwareHellmuth Broda Consulting -- www.hellmuthbroda.com
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8. But ...
Open Source
relies on
Open Systems
(and Open Standards)
for
Interoperability
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9. Who Benefits?
Open Systems
=
Interoperability
(for industry)
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10. What Are Open Systems?
 Published interfaces enable interoperability
 Third parties can compete with a different
implementation
 permit different implementation of identical
functionalities
 enable some degree of exchangeability
 can be manufacturer specific
 use of the interface can require royalty
payments to the manufacturer
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11. Characteristics of Open Systems
 Everything necessary to do
the job is defined and
published
 No need to escape to use
proprietary facilities
 No undocumented features,
no insider tips & tricks
 Modules can be exchanged
(integrateability)
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12. Who Benefits?
Open Standards
=
Competitiveness
(for industry)
and Choice
(for users)
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13. Standards in Other Infrastructure Projects
 Railroads have standards for rail gauges
 Roads need standards to ensure smooth
traffic
 Ports have standards to ensure smooth flow
of ships
 Airports have standards to ensure aircrafts
do not crash
 Even the sewerage system has a plethora
of standards including the size of the
manholes
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14. Open Standards are Open
if they:

Are created and modified through open
participation in a widely-recognized vendor-
neutral industry forum,

Are available to anyone for implementation
and use on a royalty free basis, and

Have no intellectual property
encumbrances on their use.
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15. Special Case of Open Standard:
Open Format
=
Access
(For Posterity)
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16. The Problem: Permanent
Information Loss
Let us learn from the
disasters that
affected the Library
of Alexandria
Where we lost the
knowledge of the
world from that time
Fires and other destructions have been reported
from 48 BC (Cesar), 275 AD (Aurelian), 391 AD
(Theophilus), 642 AD (MuslimDrconquest) –
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Source: Wikipedia

17. What is OpenDocument Format
(ODF)?
 Open standard specification for displaying and storing data
files
 Only available open, vendor-neutral, standardized format for
office applications
 Can be implemented by any document processing
application vendor
 Provides access to documents, independent of the
applications that created them
 Approved by OASIS in May 2005
 Approved by ISO for international standardization on May 4,
2006
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18. An Open Format is OPEN,
if it is:
 Based on an underlying open standard
 Developed through a publicly visible,
community driven process
 Affirmed and maintained by a vendor-
independent standards body
 Fully documented and publicly available
 Without proprietary extensions
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19. Summary
Open Source, Open Systems, Open
Standards and Open Formats will
pave the way to
Digital Sustainability
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20. THANK YOU
FOR YOUR
ATTENTION
Dr. Hellmuth Broda
hb@hellmuthbroda.com
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