Open Source Principles & Practices IINF 496 / 596 Open Source Principles & Practices Patrick Masson pmasson@albany.edu (970) 4MASSON

What Kind Of Hacker Are You? You are a... Contributor Lurker Newbie Business Developer 1 2 3 Community Developer 4 5 6 Technical Developer 7 8 9 Contributor: A member of an community of practice who has submitted work to advance the project/effort: this could be a question to a forum (or an answer), a feature request (or a bug), edited documentation, etc. Lurker: A member of an community of practice who observes, but does not actively participate. You may read forums, documentation, and follow members, but you have not posted questions, comments, answers to questions or submitted any contributions. Newbie: An inexperienced newcomer to a community of practice. You have no experience with the project other than perhaps using the tools/services. Business Development: Interested in operational and organizational activities of a project, e.g. governance, policies, practices, fund-raising, licensing, contracting, etc. Community Development: Interested in raising awareness and adoption of the project, e.g. memberships, volunteers, contributors, awareness, marketing, promotion, events, etc. Technical Development: Interested in building the features and functionality of the project, e.g. coding, sys admin, documentation, bug reporting, project management, etc.

What is open source? Wikipedia says...

...the best answer is? “Open source software is a powerful way to advance software development and share data for experimentation.” https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/open-source-for-academics/ “Open source is a development methodology” https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html “The term ‘open source’ refers to something people can modify and share because its design is publicly accessible.” https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-source Open source is not free, nor is it easy to understand the strict legal terms and conditions associated with its use. www.oracle.com/us/solutions/046045.pdf “When a software program is open source, it means the program's source code is freely available to the public.” http://techterms.com/definition/opensource “Open-source software (OSS) is computer software with its source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software “Open source software is software that can be freely used, changed, and shared (in modified or unmodified form) by anyone.” https://opensource.org/

Which is true? Because the source code of open source software is exposed the software is more secure. Because the source code of open source software is exposed the software is less secure.

Which is true? Open source communities provide better support for their software. Proprietary software vendors provide better support for their software.

Which is true? A business can run open source software, “out of the box.” A business needs to hire developers to run open source software.

Which is true? Open source is higher in quality because it is reviewed and developed by many people. Open source is poorer in quality because anyone can access and edit it.

Which is true? Open source costs less than proprietary software. Open source costs more than proprietary software.

Which is true? Open source software is mainly developed by amateurs / hobbyists. Open source software is mainly developed by professionals / the software industry.

Which is true? Open source software is a only viable for infrastructure. Open source software is only viable for the desktop.

Which is true? Open source software is not owned by anyone. Open source software is owned by the original developers.

Which is true? Open source software is a trend, marketing and PR hype. Open source software is a standard, best practices adopted by the software industry.

How frequently do you use open source software? Always Daily Frequently Weekly Rarely Monthly Never Few times

What open source software do you use?

https://www. youtube. com/watch. v=jw8K460vx1c http://www https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw8K460vx1c http://www.revolution-os.com/ REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software model and Microsoft to create GNU/Linux and the Open Source movement.