Quick intro to F/OSS

Short introduction to how Open Source came to be... and what it means...

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1. Free / Open Source Software
   Lightning Talk
   @ ouropensource
   me@gbraad.nl
   

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2. Who am I
   Software / Hardware Engineer
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   employed as an IT Consultant
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   experienced in F/OSS community and development
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   teaching techniques and methodologies
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   G-Star, Dutch Ministry of Defence, Nomovok
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   Fedora Project (FAmSCo), Mozilla, 气 (qi) Hardware
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   Scrum, OOAD & Domain Driven Design, etc.
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   The Open Source Way
   吉拉德 , 开源软件专家 & IT 咨询顾问 , me@gbraad.nl
   

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3. Early history
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   Unix
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   1970 – 1990
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   Richard Stallman wants a 'free' Un*x clone
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   writes the GPL (license)
   – 4 freedoms
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   Free Software Movement
   – Free Software Foundation
   

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4. Four essential freedoms
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   Freedom 0
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   To run the program, for any purpose
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   Freedom 1
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   To study
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   Freedom 2
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   To redistribute
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   Freedom 3
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   To distribute modified copies, under the same terms
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   Access to source is needed (freedom 0, 1 and 2
   apply)
   

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5. Rise of Linux
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   Linux
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   1990 – Now
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   Linus Torvalds use GPL; 'It won't be big
   announcement'
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   Linux gets sold commercially
   – Red Hat, Novell
   – Adoption by enterprise market
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   Usage of the word 'free' is ambiguous
   – Eric S Raymond, Red Hat, et. al introduce a new term
   – Open Source
   

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6. Open Source
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   Refers to the freedom to study
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   Source code is 'freely' available to see
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   Red Hat starts selling support contracts for
   OSS
   

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7. Tainted term
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   Cultural issues between the usage of the terms
   'free' and 'open'
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   Needless discussions
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   Open Core
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   Open Source for the core, add-ons are
   commercially sold
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   Often the licensing is not ideal to use the core for
   other projects
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   Commercial vendors FUD*
   * Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
   

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8. Open, beyond Source
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   Open Source is mostly an ideal; way of thinking
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   Promotes collaboration/sharing of ideas
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   Licensing promotes re-use of material
   – Creative Commons (Lawrence Lessig)
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   Open Education is a good example
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   OpenCourseWare (MIT)
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   Wikipedia (WikiMedia foundation, uses CC)
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   TeachingOpensource.org
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   Open Source Way (http://theopensourceway.org)
   

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