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OpenSource
Software
Aditya Bhattaditya@adityabhatt.org
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Slides by Nikhil Marathe
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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
<Document>
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¤t=daemon-tux-duke-mozilla.jpg&newest=1
XO - http://www.laptop.org/images/laptop/hardware-left-side-view.png
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