a presentation on open source by aidan mcguire director amcguire@bluefountain.com

A Presentation on Open Source

by

Aidan McGuireDirector

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 RedHat / IBM / HP/

Suse

Applications

➢Apache / SAMBA / Zope / MySQL➢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➢OpenEHR➢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

Thank You