This document discusses FLOSS (free/libre and open source software) in education. It defines FLOSS as software that is free to use, modify, and share. It notes that FLOSS includes applications like LibreOffice, GIMP, Firefox, and Android as alternatives to proprietary software. The document considers some barriers to adopting FLOSS in schools like awareness, funding models, and technical support, but argues that FLOSS offers benefits like choice, reliability, security, fast updates, cost effectiveness, and ethical considerations that make it suitable for education. Major companies and organizations like Apple, Amazon, and the Internet Archive use FLOSS successfully.

1. Should we FLOSS in Education?

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6. FLOSS
 What is it?

7. Why the name FLOSS?
 FLOSS acronym can be translated into other
languages, with for example the "F"
representing free (English) or frei (German),
and the "L" representing libre (Spanish or
French), livre (Portuguese), or libero (Italian),
and so on.
 FLOSS is also known as ‘FOSS’ ‘OSS’ & Free
Software.

8. Where does FLOSS come from?

9. Computer Programmer

10. Source Code

11. Compiler

12. Machine Code

13. Why do they FLOSS?

14. Microsoft Office

15. Libre Office

16. Google Docs

17. Adobe Photoshop

18. GIMP

19. Ribbet

20. Flowol

21. Scratch

22. Dropal

23. E-Jay

24. Audacity

25. Audio Expert

26. GarageBand

27. LMMS

28. Soundation

29. Nova Mind

30. Free Mind

31. Bubbl

32. Firefox

33. Chrome

34. Android

35. Safari

36. The choice is yours

37. What Is Stopping Us?
 Awareness of OSS
 The Politics of Payment
 The Dynamics of Change in Schools
 Understanding Software Choice as an Ethical
Consideration
 Technical Personnel

38. Who is FLOSSing

39. Apple
 Over 200 FLOSS applications have been added
to the new Mac OS.

40. Web Server
 The most popular web server has always been
OSS/FS since such data have been collected.
For example, Apache is the current #1 web
server.

41. PHP
 PHP is the web’s #1 Server-side Scripting
Language.

42. OpenSSH
 OpenSSH is the Internet’s #1 implementation
of the SSH security protocol.

43. MySQL
 MySQL’s market share is growing faster than
Windows’

44. Web Browser
 Chrome and Firefox combined command over
50% of the browser market.

45. Internet Archive
 The Internet Archive -- the world’s largest
library in terms of the amount of text it
retains -- uses an OSS/FS operating system.

46. Red Hat
 Red Hat (a FLOSS vendor) responded more
rapidly than Microsoft or Sun.

47. Security
 FLOSS suppliers are 60% faster than
proprietary suppliers at responding to
vulnerability reports.

48. Intel
 Intel’s IT Vice President, Doug
Busch, reported savings of $200 million by
replacing costly Unix servers with cheaper
servers running GNU/Linux.

49. Amazon
 Amazon.com was able to cut $17 million in
technology expenses in a single quarter,
largely due to a switch to Linux.

50. So why FLOSS?
 Choice – By its very nature it is available for
all
 Reliability – Internet is maintained by FLOSS
apps
 Security – Allows anyone to check for flaws
 Fast Deployment – 1000s of volunteers
 Cost Effective – Free is a hard price to beat
 Ethical – It is open after all.

51. I FLOSSED