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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
Invest in BANDWITH, BANDWITH, BANDWITH!