The Zen of Free [Part 1.5]

Mar 17, 2007 at 7:55 AM
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[Sun Tech Day 2]

The Philosophy behind Open Source
Simon Phipps
Chief Open Source Officer

Topology of society has changed from Hub & Spoke to Mesh

Structure of society has changed and the Internet is turning society into a participation mesh

Consumers becoming participants (theyworkforyou.com)

Software Developement

Closed Room
Open Room
Open source is software developement in a participation society - connected capitalism.

Virtuous cycle of open source

Freedom to create derived works
Anyone can check code out
Few can check it back in

Software 3.0

Software mashups
Debian Ubuntu with OpenSolaris kernel - provides dtrace and ZFS to Ubuntu

Licences

CDDL for OpenSolaris
GPL for Java

Riches if

Collaborate
Compete
Contribute

Open Source will be dominent by the end of the decade !

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My god, they've completely jumped on the open source bandwagon. It's kinda creepy because only a few years ago Java was closed-source.

I hope Libre/Free software becomes more dominant because some companies have been tossing the term open-source around trying to appear trendy.

The Zen of Free [Part 1.5]

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