1. Open
Source
Software
Aditya Bhatt
aditya@adityabhatt.org
Slides by Nikhil Marathe
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2. Outline
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What is OSS
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History
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Why it matters
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Community
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Not just the software
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3. What is OSS
Free...
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4. Free as in Speech,
Not Beer.
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5. History
MIT, GNU, FSF, OSI
Specific communities:
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Linux Foundation, Mozilla, Apache, KDE,
GNOME
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6. Richard Stallman
Free
Software
Foundation
GNU ( GNU's not UNIX )
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7. Linux
Linus Torvalds
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8. The Internet!
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9. Firefox

10. Why OSS?
Money
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11. All your base are belong to us!

12. Security through obscurity is BAD!

13. Many eyeballs make bugs shallow

14. Get your hands dirty

15. Community
Not just a collection of geeks
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16. Selfish / Selfless

17. Welcome to the Real World
Success stories
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18. No free lunch
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19. Getting paid for it
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20. How to contribute?
(Code) Translαte
<Document>
ℹ Promote
⇱? Help
Design
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21. Questions ?
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22. References
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar // Eric Raymond
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Read it http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-
bazaar/
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Just For Fun // Linus Torvalds and David Diamond
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A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Internet // John
Naughton
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Hackers // Steven Levy
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Educating the Next Generation of FOSS Developers // Luis Ibáñez
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23. Thanks
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24. Images
Osslogos - 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&current=daemon-tux-duke-mozilla.jpg&newest=1
XO - http://www.laptop.org/images/laptop/hardware-left-side-view.png
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