1.
Open Source Software is about Engineering Economics

2.
There is NO Open Source Software Business Model

3.
Freeloaders means you’re doing it right!

4.
1950 1960 1970 200019901980 2010
Code sharing
At Princeton
IAS in late
1940s
IBM “SHARE”
Conf & Library
Begins 1953
DECUS
Conf & Library
Begins 1962
MIT Project
Athena Begins
1983
1BSD Released
1977
AT&T Shares
First UNIX tapes
early-70s
Free Software
Foundation
Launches 1985
DoJ vs IBM begins
“Software Bundling
is Anti-competitive”
1969
IBM response is to
unbundle HW, SW, &
services pricing
1st DoJ vs IBM
Consent Decree
“Hardware Bundling
is Anti-competitive”
1956
Open Source
Definition 1998
USENIX Begins
1975
Linus Releases
Linux 1991
Apache httpd
Released 1995
Apache Software
Foundation 1999
OSDL Forms
2000
OSDL Re-forms as
Linux Foundation
2007
U.S. Congress
Adds Computer
Software to
Copyright Law
1980
GCC
1987
emacs
1975
We’ve collaborated on software since we’ve written software
Writing good software is hard work

5.
Stallman’s [Brilliant] Legal Hack

6.
Collaboratively-Developed Liberally-Licensed Software is
about Engineering Economics

7.
Democratization

8.
All Things Digital …

9.
Books, Movies, TV Don’t Change (Much)

10.
Remaking a New Book or Movie

11.
The Democratization of Software

12.
Remove all the friction in the pipeline

13.
But Software Is Incredibly Dynamic …

14.
But it’s worse …

15.
OSS Component Vuln Data
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Freetype FFMPEG Chromium Electron

16.
2012 Octoverse 4.6M+ repositories
2016 Octoverse 19.4M+ repositories
2018 Octoverse 96M+ repositories

17.
Labs vs. Engineering

18.
Anyone Can Learn to Program Now …

19.
… But Learning Deployment & SRE Is Hard
?

20.
… But Learning Deployment & SRE Is Hard
?
… And What About Programming Theory?

21.
Cooking Software

22.
We All Know How To Fry An Egg

23.
We May Get Good Enough To Cook For Friends

24.
We May Tackle
The Holiday
Meal

25.
We May Get
Good At A
Particular Type
of Cooking.

26.
Restaurants

27.
We go from
this …

28.
… to this.

29.
This has implications
There is likely a team with specialized roles
There is an added layer of communications
There are standards to be met and maintained
There needs to be reliable and repeatable delivery

30.
This has implications
There is likely a team with specialized roles
There is an added layer of communications
There are standards to be met and maintained
There needs to be reliable and repeatable delivery
There are customers
There is a business to run
There are regulations that need to be served
There is money to be managed

31.
Open Source Software Problems

32.
Open Source Software Problems

33.
Peter Naur and
‘Programming as
Theory Building’
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

34.
What does democratizing software mean?

35.
stephen.walli@microsoft.com

36.
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