The Future of Open Source

Exploring the past, present and future of Free Software and Open Source.

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1. the future of Open Source scott chacon
2. a short history of open source
3. why free software
4. Rear Admiral Grace M. Hopper, USN, Ph.D.
5. the UNIVAC I A2 system
9. “GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it” the GNU Manifesto
10. “Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way. I cannot in good conscience sign a nondisclosure agreement or a software license agreement. For years I worked within the Artificial Intelligence Lab to resist such tendencies and other inhospitalities, but eventually they had gone too far: I could not remain in an institution where such things are done for me against my will.” ! the GNU Manifesto
12. why free software
13. why open source
14. Release early. Release often. With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow. When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor. The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users.
16. The conferees believed the pragmatic, business-case grounds that had motivated Netscape to release their code illustrated a valuable way to engage with potential software users and developers, and convince them to create and improve source code by participating in an engaged community. The conferees also believed that it would be useful to have a single label that identified this approach and distinguished it from the philosophically- and politically-focused label "free software." http://opensource.org/history
17. 16 years
18. the current state of open source
19. GitHub
20. http://www.githubarchive.org/
21. http://ghtorrent.org/
24. 2MM active repositories
26. proliferation of licenses
30. decline of the gpl
31. http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2013/04/02/quantifying-the-shift-toward-permissive-licensing/
32. the involvement of corporations
34. Corporate Linux Kernel Contributors
35. (linux) $ git shortlog -se origin/master | grep microsoft 1 Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> 135 Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> 40 Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com> 791 K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> 14 KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> 1 Mike Sterling <mike.sterling@microsoft.com>
36. libgit2
37. the business of open source
38. why do businesses open source they want to use open source finding / attracting developers working across fields (ruby, libgit2) engage community in their other products
40. the (possibly) certain future of open source
41. corporate open source
43. open source workflow proprietary workflow
44. workflow more remote work, autonomy fewer cost of living issues (like SF) fewer meetings, less email - more things with URLs
45. the death of copyleft
46. Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?
47. Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?
49. What does copyleft do?
50. What does copyleft really protect?
51. freedom from fear
52. what do we want from open source
53. what do we want from open source freedom from fear the ability to improve and learn from cutting edge software collaborate with people in other companies on commodity software ability to deeply engage with users
54. what do we mean by open source
55. what do we mean by open source the availability of the source code? the right to use it for anything? the right to contribute back and improve it?
56. freedom isn’t enough
57. community source
58. community source clear and permissible license and CLA clear contributing guidelines (use github flow unless good reason) be responsive, help people contribute prepared to give up the project if you can't do this
59. “free as in speech”
60. “free as in we’re listening”
61. what can you do?
62. "We see how politics, instead of being a dirty word, could be what it meant in the original Greek: the engagement of all citizens in the decisions that affect their lives." Andrew Rasiej, PDF Opening Remarks, 2005
63. thank you @chacon