Webinar slides that looked to focus on the definition, history and future of open-source technology. It was give by Tom Rieger at tom.rieger@enterprisedb.com. Certain references in the presentation include:
Research paper: https://www2.slideshare.net/tomlrieger/drivers-and-impediments-to-digital-transformation-the-research
BONUS Research infographic: https://www2.slideshare.net/tomlrieger/drivers-and-impediments-to-digital-transformation
Gartner Open Source Hype-cycle: Source: https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3987447/hype-cycle-for-open-source-software-2020
Tom Rieger on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomlrieger/
Hello everyone! My name is Tom Rieger and am a Senior Solutions Engineer for EnterpriseDB. I will be your host today for our webinar “Open Source 101 – What does it Mean for Corporate IT”.
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The fundamental functions of the Internet are built on open source technologies. The Linux operating system regulates the operation of Web servers, and the Apache Web server application negotiates data transfer between the worldwide server infrastructure and personal devices. Countless Internet applications are also open source.
Large Internet companies, like Facebook and Google, have even opened up some of their proprietary innovations to the open source community. Disseminating the technology improves the experience for all users by creating efficiencies and making the entire Internet more streamlined.
Open source licensing encourages innovation through collaboration. Without it, many of the technologies we take for granted today would never have developed, or would be locked away behind patent law. The open source movement is the reason that technology has developed at such a breakneck pace for the past few decades.
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Since 1998, there are now nearly 50 ‘open source’ licensing schemes including the most widely known like MIT, Apache, and GNU
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In 2003, a proprietary Unix vendor and former Linux distribution vendor called SCO alleged that Unix intellectual property had been inappropriately copied into the Linux kernel, and sued IBM, claiming that it bore responsibility for this. Several related lawsuits and countersuits followed, some originating from SCO, some from others suing SCO. However, SCO's allegations lacked specificity, and while some in the media reported them as credible, many critics of SCO believed the allegations to be highly dubious at best.
Over the course of the SCO v. IBM case, it emerged that not only had SCO been distributing the Linux kernel for years under the GPL, and continued to do so (thus rendering any claims hard to sustain legally), but that SCO did not even own the copyrights to much of the Unix code that it asserted copyright over, and had no right to sue over them on behalf of the presumed owner, Novell.
Google v. Oracle has been a closely watched case by the tech industry, as a ruling favoring Oracle could have significant effects on past and future software development, given the prolific use of APIs.[78] Opponents of the federal court's ruling, including Google and other developers of Android-based software, have raised several concerns including the impact on interoperability, software innovation and the potential for bad actors to pick up the rights to old software and file claims against companies who built their software on what were assumed to be open standards. If this ruling is allowed to stand, it is believed that companies will be forced to implement deliberately incompatible standards to protect themselves from the risk of complex litigation, moving away from the current trends in software development which have focused on improving interoperability between different services allowing apps to communicate with one another, creating more integrated platforms for end users.[65][13]
Industry and legal experts had stated an Oracle victory could create a chilling effect in software development, with copyright holders using the copyright on APIs to prevent their use in developing interoperable alternatives through reverse engineering, as common in open source software development.[79][80][81] At the same time, a judgement favoring Google's position may weaken protection for copyright for software code developers, allowing competitors with better resources to develop improved products from smaller firms, and reduce the motive for innovation within the industry.[82][83]
Cisco and FSF is about open source utilization inside the Linksys router firmware – so the use of open source becomes very deep inside the machine as much as it is obvious to us like Postgres.
As part of the negotiations with the European Commission, Oracle committed that MySQL server will continue until at least 2015 to use the dual-licensing strategy long used by MySQL AB, with proprietary and GPL versions available. The antitrust of the EU had been "pressuring it to divest MySQL as a condition for approval of the merger”
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In the consumer world, the pervasiveness of devices is only possible because of open source. As we speak I have 29 devices connected to my home wifi!
But consider how our primary internet ‘Sherpa’ inside Google is built on open source projects. In fact Google has created over 70 open source projects that has found its way into every facet of our personal and corporate life.
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