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Free & Open Source ware
An Educational Presentation
By Sean Thomas Moroney, M.Ed
Copyright 2011 Attribution-ShareAlike
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Free & Open Source ware
WHY FOSS?Utility – it works!
Promote spirit of collaboration, innovationSupport communities in favor of corporations
Enhance security Cost$ benefitBe Greener
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Freeware
Can be downloaded, used, without restrictions
Solely or collectivity developed
Intellectual property rights may be retained
Source code not necessarily distributed
E.g., skype, VLC, Audacity, Cloud/Web 2.0 apps
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Open Source ware
Modifiable, extendible
Collectively developed, created
Released in the public domain
May have commercial elements
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The 3 C's of Open source
Code ~-Some popular world-class open source projects are Linux, E.g, U/Linux family of operating systems, Apache, PHP, MySQL, CMS, many Web 2.0, mobile platform API apps.
Collaboration ~Collaborative tools are the backbone of the open source way. Tools include version control systems, IRC, mailing
lists, wikis, blogs to help developers working on building code together.
Community ~Sharing ideas and developing code across the Internet with developers all over the globe forms the community for most open source projects.
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A brief history of FOSS
1950'-60's Hardware rules: software freely shared, UNIX written, SHARE group meets
1970's Software becomes relevant; USA v IBM restricts bundling; first networked computers, programs shared widely on BBS's; Commercial software “industry” develops
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A brief history of FOSS
1980's Copyright law extended to include software. 1st PC's introduced Micro-computing movement begins, Free Software Foundation started GNU or General Public license established; “Copyleft” v Copyright.
1990's PC concept as work appliance embraced, commercial software worth billions, linux released, Netsacpe released as freeware, internet evolves and FOSS with it
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A brief history of FOSS
2000's Computers become home/work/school appliances, mobile computing comes of age, Cloud computing helps WWW grow numbers 1.0, 2.0 etc
2008 US Federal court rules that FOSS software agreements arre legally enforceable
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Some FOSS Numbers
An estimated 6,845,609,960 internet (browser) users (2009)
Apache Project software runs 98% of the WWW
100,000+ FOSS Mobile apps created, downloaded used in 2009
An estimated $6 billion consumer dollars is saved via the use of FOS each year.
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FOSS Case Studies
200+ user school lab stocked with FOSS. Initial savings in purchase and licensing fees $27,000.00
Subsequent year $50,000,00 +
Survey in education sector revealed 30-44% budget savings via use of FOSS. (MassCUE, ISTE, Free Software Foundation 2010)
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FOSS Strategies...
An estimated 6,845,609,960 internet (browser) users (2009)
100,000+ FOSS Mobile apps created, downloaded used in 2009
An estimated $60 billion consumer dollars is saved via the use of FOS each year.
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FOSS Trends, projections strategy for schools
Proprietary Software costs at stasis with additions
WWW and community growing
Cloud Software as a service applications growing
Network API and device convergence
TCO?
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FOSS Trends, projections, strategy cont.
Conduct user community habit audits: survey, monitoring
Develop parallel function FOSS bank
Transtion to Cloud replication where and whenever possible
Invest in BANDWITH, BANDWITH, BANDWITH!