During the OPNFV mini summit at the 2015 NFV World Congress, Dave Neary of Red Hat gave a presentation on the importance of open source, with a history lesson along the way.

1. Dave Neary, Red Hat
dneary@redhat.com
@nearyd
The NFV Revolution
Must Be Open

2. Revolution

3. 1756-63: 7 Years War

4. 1765: Stamp Act

5. 1773: Boston Tea Party

6. 1776: Declaration of Independence

7. 1780: Battle of Yorktown

8. 1763 – 1780

9. French revolution

10. 1762: “The Social Contract”

11. 1776: US Declaration of Independence

12. 1789: Fall of the Bastille

13. 1793: Execution of Louis XVI

14. 1776 - 1793

15. “It takes 20 years
to make an
overnight success”
Eddie Cantor

16. Free and open source
software

17. Phase 1: Passion
“Chasing taillights”

18. c. 1980: It started with a printer...

19. Building on the past
“If I have seen
further it is by
standing on the
shoulders of
giants”
Sir Isaac Newton

20. 1991: Birth of a Penguin
“I'm doing a (free) operating
system (just a hobby, won't be
big and professional like GNU)
for 386(486) AT clones”
Linus Torvalds
25 Aug 1991

21. 1992: Torvalds vs Tannenbaum
“From a theoretical (and aesthetical)
standpoint linux looses. If the GNU kernel had
been ready last spring, I'd not have bothered
to even start my project: the fact is that it
wasn't and still isn't. Linux wins heavily on
points of being available now.”
Linus Torvalds
29 Jan 1992

22. Lesson 1
Running code beats great
ideas

23. 1997: The Cathedral and the Bazaar
“Given enough
eyeballs, all bugs
are shallow”
Eric S. Raymond

24. Lesson 2
Make it easy for your
community to contribute,
and they will

25. Phase 2: Business
Making money by selling
open source

26. 1999: Red Hat, VALinux IPOs

27. Open source business models
● Dual license GPL and proprietary
● Services and support
● Subscriptions
Most people failed

28. Rise of the Foundation

29. Collaborate & compete
● Collaborate on undifferentiated heavy lifting
● Contributing to open source in self-interest
● Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, ...

30. Lesson 3
Give contributors a level
playing field

31. Phase 3: Innovation
Breaking new ground

32. Open source as a weapon

33. Community momentum

34. Lesson 4
All of us are better than
any of us

35. Open source is
everywhere

36. Cloud

37. DevOps and agile

38. Open source and NFV
Open source creating value

39. A perfect storm
● Competition driving per-subscriber revenues down
● Bandwidth driving costs up
● Web-native companies driving new functionality
● Interoperability, vendor independence high priorities
Open source is the answer

40. Platinum Members
Silver Members
Broad industry support

41. Strong community foundations
● Key projects are collaborative, meritocratic
● OpenStack
● OpenDaylight
● Open vSwitch
● DPDK
● Linux

42. Upstream first

43. 5/4/15
Not always easy!

44. 5/4/15
Moving in

45. 5/4/15
Map the terrain

46. The NFV revolution
will be open source

47. Join us
http://opnfv.org
http://wiki.opnfv.org

48. Questions?
Dave Neary, Red Hat
dneary@redhat.com
@nearyd