Free & Open Source - an introduction
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Free and open source software (FOSS) refers to software that is available for use, modification, and sharing without restrictions and at no cost. Some key points about FOSS include: 1. FOSS provides users freedom and flexibility as the source code is openly accessible, allowing anyone to use, study, modify, and share the software. 2. Major companies and organizations widely use FOSS like Linux, Apache, Firefox, and many programming languages and web servers powering the internet. 3. Active FOSS communities contribute to the ongoing development and support of many popular projects through collaborative efforts.
Free & Open Source - an introduction
- 1. Free and Open Source Software Harit Kothari http://harit.kotharee.com/ @harit
- 2. Free : free as in beer
- 3. Open Source : free as in freedom
- 4. License : free for anyone to use
- 5. Richard Stallman – father of FSF
- 6. Restaurant Restaurant and secrete recipe Without, you can't prepare same food at home The recipe is source code, and restaurant is just API
- 8. … if you can cook, then why to go to restaurant Your own combination and customisation
- 9. No dependency on chef and servant; and the restaurant
- 10. Take help of your neighbor to make better recipe
- 11. Good that you don't need to sign agreements
- 12. Freedom It has meaning with freedom of every sort
- 13. Almost cost free, community driven
- 14. No dependency for service and support
- 15. Simple four points The freedom to run the program, for any purpose
- 16. The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish
- 17. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
- 18. The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others
- 19. Who is using FOSS and how? Me, you and all users of computers!
- 20. We at livestream... Flex SDK, RoR, jQuery, Eclipse (IDE), Java flavors, Apache HTTP Server, Firefox, Thunderbird Most of web servers – Internet
- 22. All giants including google, yahoo, IBM, M$, cisco
- 23. FOSS Communities Ubuntu (supported by Canonical + community) and almost every linux development
- 24. Many independent projects at sourceforge.net
- 25. Mozilla projects (supported by Mozilla Corp + community)
- 26. Apache frameworks and server flavors (supported by Apache Software Foundation + community)
- 27. Eclipse, NetBeans, Java, Perl, Python and so many...
- 28. Fit to the categories TrueCrypt
- 29. Open Office
- 30. 7 Zip
- 31. Notepad++
- 32. PDF Creator
- 33. Win Merge
- 34. Audacity
- 36. VirtualBox
- 39. Operating Systems FOS X-buntu (ubuntu, kubuntu, edubuntu), Mandriva, OpenSolaris, Fedora, Slackware, OpenSUSE Non FOS Suse Enterprise, Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise, Windows, Mac (leopard, tiger – all animals of zoo)
- 40. … but not open source Google Documents, Dropbox
- 41. MalwareBytes and MS Security Essentials
- 42. Most IMs – Skype, Google Talk, Yahoo M, Digsby
- 43. Enough... let's go precise
- 44. + and - Possibility of long term development (Firefox)
- 45. Save money – no license Lack of community strength
- 46. No guarantee about support or development
- 47. Why no FOSS ? Sometimes marketing and advertisements
- 48. Preinstalled
- 49. Its OK, I am good with pirated copy
- 50. Some community or project is just slow or dead
- 51. No community initiative for specific domain
- 52. Errr... Linux? which OS?
- 53. Then how to earn ? Charge for service and support and not product Cynapse (cyn.in), zmanda
- 54. Cost of fruits / veggies and delivery FOSS projects as raw material to make other products – license policy matters
- 55. Pay for customisation (CRM & ERP products)
- 56. Creative Commons Share, Remix, Reuse media (i.e. images, videos, animations, audio etc.)— Legally
- 57. An Open Source flavor for media
- 58. Free Documentaries under CC Patent Absurdity
- 59. The Story of Stuff
- 60. Free Q & A Limited CC - Q & A Software Development - stackoverflow.com
- 61. System Administrator - serverfault.com
- 63. General Computer User - superuser.com
- 64. Interested more, explore... Wikipedia – oh its also free but not open source
- 69. Thank you!