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< The Magic of Infinity> ∞ Harish Pillay R ed Hat [email_address] OSSPAC Singapore 2009
<or how  abundance drives innovation and economies >
30 minutes ... Scarcity Abundance Vision
<choice> Scarcity
<choice> Atoms
<choice> Atoms – while abundant individually, are scarce in blobs
<choice> Atoms/blobs - constrained by classical economic laws of supply and demand
<choice> When you control atoms, you define what can be done ...
<choice> ... and at what price
<choice> With that,  scarcity  is enforced
<choice> Bits?
<choice> Abundance
<choice> “ When you go through customs you declare your atoms, not your bits.” Nicholas Negroponte “ Being Digital”
<choice> Bits are permanently abundant
<choice> The billionth copy of the first bit is identical in every way
<choice> So, again, the classical economic theory of  scarcity  is not applicable to bits
<choice> Abundance  rulez!
<choice> Theory of large numbers rulez!
<choice> When the numbers are large enough - approaching infinity - magic  happens
<choice> Linux kernel in Fedora 9 has 204,500,946  source lines of code ... Linux Foundation October 2008
<choice> ... taken 59,389.53  man years to develop ... Linux Foundation October 2008
<choice> And  $10,784,484,309  to deliver! Linux Foundation October 2008
<choice> ... yet all the bits are  free  in both beer and speech terms
<choice> hence, the classical economic theory of  scarcity  is not applicable to bits
<choice> Vision
<choice> “ If you have visions, you better visit a doctor.” Helmut Schmidt former chancellor of germany
<choice> 85% of all companies worldwide use Open Source (Gartner 2008-11)
<choice> 30% of all servers in companies run Linux (European Commission Report 2007)
<choice> >1 in 5 Browsers used is Firefox (since Nov 2004) ( http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1 , Feb 2009 )
<choice> 80% of all commercially deployed and supported Linux is Red Hat (Gartner 2008)
<choice> 2 billion Mobile devices (Dr GL Tan, CTO, IDA, OSSPAC 2009)
<choice> 100% of Red Hat is Open Source and Open Standards-based (me, today)
<choice> Communities rule everything
<choice> Communities in the thousands
<choice> Smart folks Are evenly spread around the world
<choice> Internet + smart folks => changes everything
<choice> Don't let the Past control the future
<choice> Creativity and innovation need freedom
30 minutes ... Quick History
The Beginning Why I Must Write GNU  “ I consider that the golden rule requires that  if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it.  Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, make each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.” The Gnu Manifesto Richard Stallman, Founder of the Free Software Foundation, 1985 http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
Standards and control “ The decision to make the Web an  open system  was necessary for it to be universal.  You can't propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it. ” Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Creator of the World Wide Web, 1998 http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html
The birth of Linux To: comp.os.minix “ Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones....” Linus Torvalds, August 25, 1991
<history> Three things: OPEN source OPEN standards OPEN minds
<vision> Find Communities
<vision> Participate!
30 minutes ... First they ignore you, then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win Mahatma Gandhi
The Future? ,[object Object]
Open Source makes it possible
Internet will drive even more change
The $$$ is in creating and offering the Open Infrastructure
Old-School value chains will die

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