open source is good for you
DESCRIPTION
Slides for my talk "Open Source is good for you" at ACCU 2012. With this talk, I tried to introduce open source to people working in a closed source environment - especially those that may be afraid of open source. Therefore, the talk simplifies things a bit and also tells people to stay away from the GPL for now, as the licence implications may get you into trouble in such an environment. Note: I'm not advocating against the GPL. In fact, I'm involved in an open source project that's released under the GPL. All I'm saying here is that if you try to "sneak" the idea of open source into a corporation, the GPL is probably not the sort of licence you want to start with.TRANSCRIPT
Open Sourceis good for you
Dirk Haun, ACCU 2012
We needsoftware
that does X ...
write it yourself ...
buy /licence
Open Source
Stopreinventingthe wheel!
less vendor dependency
lower cost
better customization
better security
no advantage
0 10 20 30 40 50
14%
3%
17%
22%
44%
www.computereconomics.com, "not a scientific sample"
Benefits of Open Source?
Youcould benefit
fromother people's
work*
* by following somesimple rules
Let's talk about ... Licences
proprietory Open Source
copyleft permissive
GPL proprietoryOS licences
LGPLBSD,
Apache,etc.
look for an OSI-approved licence&
avoid anything with "GPL" (for now)
•Start with something small•Pick an OSI-approved licence•Avoid the GPL (for now)
@dirkhaun
Credits
Presentation: Dirk Haun,Tag cloud made with Wordle, based on a list from OSS Watch
Photos via Flickr, in order of appearance:
"Sweet Summer Rainbow Fruit Salad" by D. Sharon Pruitt,"Black Sheep vs White Sheep" by Leon Riskin,"01 (227)" by Victor1558,"Typing" by Sebastien Wiertz,"£50" by Images Money,"return undefined;" by nyuhuhuu,"the shoe wheel bike" by emerson12,"I want you to be an Open Source Developer" by Lenz Grimmer,"Condoms" by Robert Elyov,"thumbs up" by anthony kelly,"Thank you" by Margherita J. L. Lisoni