Open Source
Transcript: BSD - Berkeley Software Distribution, 1988 GPL - GNU/General Public licence, 1989 Mozilla Apache MIT ... and dozens of others Enterprise Open Source Initiative 1998, B. Perens & E. Raymond, Netscape fame Tim O'Reilly and Richard Stallman Commercial friendly or not Virulent or not Examples Electronics OpenSPARC, openmoko phones,... Health and medicine open-source genomics, cancer research... Digital content, information Wikipedia 23M articles, 100k active contributors, 365M readers, 285 languages Project Gutenberg Public domain, open formats, since 1971, 40k books Languages and ecosystems Java, Python, PHP, Ruby,... Thousands of libraries, frameworks... IDE, application servers... Communities Apache, Tigris, OW2, Sourceforge, RedHat, Linux Foundation, Mozilla, Eclipse... Saving many man years !... Apache, 60% of all web servers Internet plumbing ! Mail, DNS, routers, proxy, DHCP, FTP, LDAP, NTP, SSH, Telnet... Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice / LibreOffice, GIMP, P2P, VLC... ERP (OpenBravo, OpenERP, Compiere...) CRM (SugarCRM, vTiger...) VM Xen, BI tools, VoIP Asterisk, EHR, Education Big Data, NoSQL,... Linux Linus Torvalds (Linus Unix) Since 1991 for Intel x86 initially now on dozens of hardware GPL Top 10 super computers, 90% of top 500 PCs, tablets, routers, TV, mobile phones (Android!), embedded 60% of all web servers Examples Open source for development Open Source - Definition Source Source code - software Source - the origin, recipe Open Free Freeware Shareware "Gratis" or "Libre" FLOSS Highly psychological / human I am good, meritocracy World power Part of community Do good to the world Against commercial But also Financed by public sector (Uni, INRIA, CERN...) Financed by large institution (France Telecom...) Good marketing for IT companies (Sun, IBM...) The attraction of free (for product companies) Licenses vs services Innovation Licences... Vincent Keunen Manex CEO, Lampiris CIO about.me/vincent.keunen Desktop How does cancer know it's cancer? How is this possible?... Everything At Jay Bradner's lab, they found a molecule that might hold the answer, JQ1 -- and instead of patenting JQ1, they published their findings and mailed samples to 40 other labs to work on. An inspiring look at the open-source future of medical research. Conclusion: Open Source a real paradigm shift embrace it ! the world changes faster... Thank you ... questions ? Free Software Foundation 1985, R. Stallman, GNU fame Middleware OS