A Presentation on Open Source by Aidan Mc

A Presentation on Open Source by Aidan Mc. Guire Director amcguire@bluefountain. com

Open Source Definition ➢ Source Code ➢ Free Redistribution ➢ Integrity of The Author's Source Code ➢ Derived Works (“popclient” by Carl Harris) ➢ No Discrimination Against Persons or Fields of Endeavour

. . . Distribution of License ➢ License Must Not BE Specific to a Product ➢ License Must Not Restrict Other Software ➢ The License Must be technology-neutral source http: //www. opensource. org/docs/definition. php

Open Source History ➢ Free Software - Free speech, not free beer ➢ Stallman / Larry Wall / Torvalds / Tim Berners-Lee & Raymond “Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers” Eric Raymond ➢ Free Software and Scientific Discoveries “You can and must understand computers now” Ted Nelson

Open Source Benefits ➢ Collaboration ➢ Survival of fittest ➢ “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow” Eric Raymond ➢ Reaches the parts others beers cant reach ➢ Public Data & The Peruvian Connection ➢ http: //www. aful. org/politique/perou/english/rescon_en. html

Open Source Myths ➢ What are they?

Open Source in Business ➢Reliability ➢Cost ➢Control ➢Scalable & Multiplatform ➢Companies like Red. Hat / IBM / HP/ Suse

Applications ➢Apache / SAMBA / Zope / My. SQL ➢Mission Critical Implementations

Open Source in Public Sector ➢Canada: Genome Sciences ➢Germany: Dept of Interior ➢USA: NASA / DOD / NSA ➢Norway: Directorate of Public Management ➢UK: County Council's & Police Force & UK Gov Policy

Open Source in Healthcare ➢VISTA ➢Open. EHR ➢SARS ➢NHS“”Papering over the cracks” Paul Charnley ➢ http: //www. oshca. org/

Conclusion ➢ Open Source and Open Standards ➢ Games ➢ Tools ➢Operating System ➢Middleware ➢Applications ➢Where next?

Q & A & Discussion

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