1. The journey to accept open source in standards venues Gerald Lane Director Standards and Open Source

2. Collaborative Innovation:
Community-driven approach to problem solving
People working across geographical and organizational boundaries to confront today’s most pressing challenges
Enabled by open standards and new intellectual property practices including open source licenses
It unites perspectives from a host of disciplines to:
Rapidly solve business issues
Accelerate technological advancements
Stimulate economic growth
A New Era of Collaborative Innovation is Unfolding
Today at IBM we see three, very inter-connected factors inspiring a new era of innovation.
Key Points:
The Internet, Open Standards and the rapid pace of Business…are all contributing to this new brand of behavior… where invention and insight come together, and the vital connection between community and innovation is growing stronger by the day.
At IBM, we call this approach to innovation -- “collaborative innovation” and we define it as follows:
Community driven
People working across geo and organizational boundaries to confront today’s most pressing issues
Enabled by open standards and new IP practices, collaborative innovation unites perspectives to accelerate technological advancements and to stimulate economic growth

3. Sam Palmisano IBM Chairman and CEO
Open source is a method of tapping a community of experts to develop useful things. It began in software, but applies broadly, and is anything but anti-capitalist. It can raise quality at reduced costs, and vastly expands opportunities for profit. In a sense, open source fuels innovation much the way science fuels technology. Science is created by communities of experts, whose fundamental discoveries are typically made available to all, including individuals and companies that are able to capitalize on the new knowledge in novel ways. For IBM, the open-source model is familiar territory, given our long track record in the sciences.
Sam Palmisano IBM Chairman and CEO

4. It’s not “proprietary or open,” it’s “proprietary and open”
Proprietary Innovation
Advantages:
Product / offering uniqueness
Speed-to-Market
Open
Innovation
Advantages:
Cost / value scale
Option value / scope
Collaboration
Differentiation
Standardization
Leadership

5. Why does IBM consider Open Source important?
Open Source Software (OSS) can be a major source of innovation
Innovation can happen anytime, anywhere
Development through “open communities” leads to potentially broad ideas and creativity
OSS is a good approach for developing emerging standards
Popular open source projects can become the common implementations
Wide distribution and deployment
OSS is a source of competitive advantage in the marketplace
Open source code can be a quality base for product development
Open source can substantially improve developer productivity

6. Lessons we learned about open source
We were worried about quality; we shouldn’t have been
We gained a better understanding of the open source domain
Copyright complexities, Patents
License Ts and Cs
We gained a better understanding of the value
How to leverage
Where to contribute
We learned to balance open and proprietary
We learned to manage the risks
We learned it is important to have clear business and strategic reasons for using open source
IBM is not alone.
MS pointing out re the sample code the post that they really get open source. Their code says it is copyright MS and you can’t do anything with it.
This is precisely one of the reasons we scan for copyright code. We occasionally find copyright with code scans and investigate.
Copyright law changed 1989.

8. Open source in Open ICT Ecosystems

10. Open standards IPR policies are emerging to accommodate open source
RF only
Selection of IPR licenses:
Rand
RF w/RAND terms
RF w/limited terms

12. More transparent, More community involvement
Many governments, industry participants and consumers are seeking a new equilibrium - ETSI is positioned to provide IPR policy leadership for open source integration in standards venues
Industry direction
Totally Open
More transparent, More community involvement
Totally Proprietary
Where do we need to be today to drive innovation, solve customer problems, and accelerate growth?