Open source is central to ICT innovation

F/L/OSS is Central
to ICT Innovation
F. LETELLIER
FLOSS Vision
Open World Forum
Paris, 2009

François LETELLIER www.flet.fr

“We don't use open source
software, but we use
PHP, Apache, MySQL...”

80% LORGs use F/L/OSS

30% are not aware of it
at management level


By 2012...
80% of all commercial
software will include
OSS elements
Source: Gartner Key Predictions for IT Organisations and Users in 2008 and Beyond,
January 2008


Innovation!


« Me too ! »
Unix GNU/Linux
MS Office OpenOffice
PhotoShop Gimp
WebLogic JBoss
Oracle RDBMs PostgreSQL

Source Forge
500 top projects New technology N. for a platform Existing techno.

New market Radical innovation 1% <1%

Existing market <1% 10% No innov. 87%

Source: Innovativeness of open source software projects, K. Klincewicz 2005


About 10%-15% F/L/OSS
projects are innovative

The % is comparable in the
proprietary software industry

But...


FLOSS potentially saves the
industry 36%+ in software R&D
investment that can result in
increased profits or be more usefully
spent in further innovation

Study on the economic impact of OSS on innovation and the competitiveness os the information and
communication technologies (ICT) sector in the EU, 2006, UNU-MERIT, NL


How ?


Proprietary
components

Public / private
R&D
Customer
/ User
FLOSS
components

Build on top

03 06
20 20

TELOCIM
TELOSYS AJAX FRAMEWORK


Proprietary
components

FLOSS
components

Contribute back

Proprietary
components

Public / private
R&D
Customer
/ User

Contribution FLOSS
components

Collaborate

$ 91B revenue
#1 in number of US patents granted/y
$ 1B/y FOSS investment (2002)


Geeky talk...

F/L/OSS is an
innovation “bus”
for our Information
Society

Uses at home/soho
Builds on other works Sell substitutes Contributes as a hobby
Company
Research XYZ
Lab
Transfers
research results

Worldwide F/L/OSS Code Base
Shares R&D on Develops with
non core-business taxpayers money
Company Company Public
XYZ XYZ Administration

Uses in production process
Sell hw/sw complements Offers services
“publish”
According to a protocol: the license
“subscribe”


New ?


2004

1994

1990
ASK Corp.
<1980
Relational Technology Inc. /
Ingres Corp.
1980


Actually, copyright and patent protection is
more of an exception...

Historically, unprotected or free software
came first
Extinction of IP rights (public domain) lets
innovation spread widely in society


“There's no
business model
for F/L/OSS!”

Buy Get Build Sell
Contribute
F/L/OSS Bespoke
development
Use
Migrate
Lead
Patronize
Mutualize

Dual license
Hardware
Complement Subscription
Legacy In-house Service
Open Core
Software
Refactoring
Substitute Proprietary Freeware
Customize
publishing
SaaS
Externally
Superset Outsourcing funded
venture
Integration
Embedded
VAR


And what
next ?

entry
community = audience
Open-Source
hurt competition Advertising
SaaS
AdSense

Data Wars
brand equity
UGC
web index your
(YouTube user lock-in
maps documents
Blogger
satellite
Picasa)


Free
S o ftw a re

fo r G reen I T

Thank you for your attention!

François Letellier - www.flet.fr

OW2 - www.ow2.org

GreenIT.fr - www.greenit.fr


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