2. AGENDA
Open Source – An Introduction
History & Its Principles
Open Source Methodology
Evolution of FOSS
FOSS in Enterprise
Licensing Model
Conclusion
5. H
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History of Open source
Concept of free sharing information existed long before
computers, For example: Sharing of Cooking Recipe’s
In early 1960’s any computer academy who develop a
software shared its source code under the principle of
openness & co-operation
Any source code, human-readable form of software, was
generally distributed with the software itself because
Users frequently modified the software themselves,
Resolve Compatibility issue with hardware or Operating System
,
Also to fix bugs or add new functionality.
This led to a “Free Software Movement” via
World Wide Web and later termed as
6. Open Source Principles
Open source enables us to read the code
We can see how it’s made
The freedom to run the program for any purpose
The freedom to study how the program works, and
adapt it to your needs
The freedom to redistribute copies
The freedom to improve the program
9. FOSS – Free & Open Source
Software
Free and Open-Source Software (F/OSS, FOSS) or
free/libre/open-source software (FLOSS) is software
that is liberally licensed to grant the right of users to
use, study, change, and improve its design through
the availability of its source code.
In the context of free and open-source software, free
refers to the freedom to copy and re-use the
software, rather than to the price of the software.
Free software focuses on the philosophical
freedoms it gives to users while open source
focuses on the perceived strengths of its peer-to-
peer development model.
14. Licensing Model
Any Open Source application has to be registered
and licensed by the “FSF – Free Software
Foundation” with a related distinct criteria to be
declared as Free Software
Free Proliferate Copyrighted License – GPL & MPL
They require that any modified software and any program including this software
in a derived product must be placed under the same license
Free Copy Left Persistent Licenses – LGPL & BSD
They contain a clause allowing users to mix the software with proprietary
software and place it under a proprietary license, on the condition that the
free module remains under a free license
Free Non Copy Left Licenses – License Apache
Any one can transform a source code under this license without acknowledging
its original developer
15. Conclusion with a Statistics
Open Source Technology - A Boon to IT
• 54% of IT Executives said Open Source would be their
dominant server & application platform in 5 years
--- (Source : CIO
Magazine)
• Apache has 67% of Web Server market
• Linux based Servers and its supported Enterprise
applications – will be the first choice for the SME segment