A Presentation on Open Source by Aidan McGuire Director

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

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 ➢

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 ➢

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

Q & A & Discussion

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