Free & Open Source ware

An Educational Presentation

By Sean Thomas Moroney, M.Ed

Copyright 2011 Attribution-ShareAlike

Free & Open Source ware

WHY FOSS?Utility – it works!

Promote spirit of collaboration, innovationSupport communities in favor of corporations

Enhance security Cost$ benefitBe Greener

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

Open Source ware

Modifiable, extendible

Collectively developed, created

Released in the public domain

May have commercial elements

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.

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

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

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

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.

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)

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.

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?

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

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