Free Libre/Open Source

a
talk
on
open
source

by
shashishekhar s
shashi@inf.in
 define: open source

o·pen-source (ō'pən-sôrs', -sōrs')

adj.

Of or relating to source code that is available to the

public: an open-source operating system.

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 imagine

 You've bought a car with it's hood

welded shut
 And you are ...
 Driving a long distance
 Expert with car repairi
 Short of cash for a new car
 ...

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 imagine

 You love that dose your friend's mom

cooks
 And she's
 Leaving town (no more dOse)
 Hasn't taught anybody to cook that
 You don't have the recipe
 ...

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 define: open source

 Community
 Culture
 Contribution
 Context

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 story time
 1950s – 1960s
 TMRC, Hacker Ethic, Time Sharing, UNIVAC
 1970s
 MIT AI Lab, ARPANet, UNIX, AT&T, Apple, Microsoft, BSD
 1980s
 RMS, FSF, GNU, BSD Wars, Sun
 1990s
 Linux, SLS, Apache, Postgres, Red Hat, Debian, L-I
 2000s
 F(L)OSS, Ubuntu, Java, Mono, OpenOffice

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 free as in freedom
 Resources
 Competition
Money
 Culture
 Collaboration
Peers
 Learning New Things
 Creating New Stuff Experiment
 Opportunities
 Experience Leadership
 Exposure
 Track Record
Management
 Testimonials

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 developers, developers...

YES! Developers are that important!!

THAT MEANS

YOU!!!!
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 flossing skills ...

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 ... are useful!

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 economics of free

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 economics of free

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 inspirations
 Richard M. Stallman
 Linus Torvalds iproute
GNU
 Alexey Kuznetsov
 Andrew Tridgell
LINUX GNOME
 Larry Wall Firefox
 Guido von Rossum
 Harald Welte perl iptables
 Bill Joy
 Rusty Russell Internet/Vim
 Alan Cox
ubuntu
 Blake Ross Samba
 Miguel de Icaza python
 Mark Shuttleworth

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 inspirations
(local boyz)
 Anand Avati
 Amar Tumballi
GLUSTER
 Basavana Gowda FreeHoo
FreeTalk
 Harshavardhana
 Krishna
 Vikas

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 resources
 Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
- http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/729
 Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution -
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/toc.html
 The Cathedral and the Bazaar -
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral
-bazaar/
 The GNU Manifesto - http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
 Slashdot - http://slashdot.org
 The Linux Documentation Project - http://tldp.org/
 Geek Humor - http://userfriendly.org/, http://xkcd.com/
 Jargon File - http://www.jargon.org/

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 questions ?

Shashishekhar S

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