Some Cases of Open Source products that have Great impact in Recent Years

by wanleung IT Fest 2014

Open Source?WIKI: In production and development, open source as a development model promotes

a) universal access via free license to a product's design or blueprint, and

b) universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone.

–Linus Torvalds

“In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.”

Hot Topics

Arduino

Introduced in 2005, it was designed to give students an inexpensive and easy way to program interactive objects.

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Raspberry Pi

early concept at 2006 in UK

2012 on sale

Impact on school education in UK

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RepRap (3D printer)

Started at 2005

The basic model of all low-end 3D printers on the market

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WIKIPEDIA

Started in 2001, it currently contains 4,489,219 articles.

Freely Editable by anyone

Hot TopicsLinux?

Started at 1991

Lots of systems are running on Linux

Not only servers

Android Phones, routers (WRT, thx Linksys), embedded system (TV Box…)

More Hot TopicsFirefox OS

OLPC

Node.js

Ruby on Rail

Agile

and more, more, more

Impacts?The Internet is much easier to share things nowadays

More people can involved

all things are opened, anyone can use the pervious ideas and works, make improvement and share their owns

No longer to re-invent the wheels, new things and new idea are getting faster

–Linus Torvalds

“In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you

have to get a lot of people involved.”

Thanks

http://opensource.hk