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OpenSource

Software

Aditya Bhattaditya@adityabhatt.org

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Slides by Nikhil Marathe

Outline

What is OSS

History

Why it matters

Community

Not just the software

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What is OSS

Free...

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Free as in Speech,

Not Beer.

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History

MIT, GNU, FSF, OSI

Specific communities: Linux Foundation, Mozilla, Apache, KDE,

GNOME

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Richard Stallman

Free

Software

Foundation

GNU ( GNU's not UNIX )

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Linus Torvalds

Linux

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The Internet!

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Firefox

Why OSS?

Money

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All your base are belong to us!

Security through obscurity is BAD!

Many eyeballs make bugs shallow

Get your hands dirty

CommunityNot just a collection of geeks

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Selfish / Selfless

Welcome to the Real World

Success stories

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No free lunch

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Getting paid for it

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How to contribute?

(Code)

Design

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Translαte

⇱? Help ℹ Promote

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Questions ?

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References The Cathedral and the Bazaar // Eric Raymond

Read it http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/

Just For Fun // Linus Torvalds and David Diamond

A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Internet // John Naughton

Hackers // Steven Levy

Educating the Next Generation of FOSS Developers // Luis Ibáñez

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Thanks

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ImagesOsslogos - http://mrslwalker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/3084292004_ffd4f3749f-240x300.jpg

Bugs shallow - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tedsla/3711727810/

Code – Oxygen project http://www.oxygen-icons.org/

Money - http://www.flickr.com/photos/cleebster/2508660124/

World domination - http://edu.kde.org/marble/poster/marble_worlddomination_thumb.jpg

Potter - http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.org/generated/images/clay-hands-jpg_w800_h600_fit.jpg

Vendor lock-in - http://blog.echovar.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/vendor_lock_in.jpg

Security through obscurity - http://disenchanted.com/images/tianay/topsecret.gif

Scratch an itch - http://www.popgadget.net/images/itch-cat-scratch-pad.jpg

Daemon-tux-duke-mozilla - http://s103.photobucket.com/albums/m122/kensjava/?action=view&current=daemon-tux-duke-mozilla.jpg&newest=1

XO - http://www.laptop.org/images/laptop/hardware-left-side-view.png

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