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Free As In Speech, Free As In Beverage,Free As In Puppy

Why should I pay for something that’s free?!?

TUT-1383

Rick Ashford

Sales Engineering Manager – US West

rick.ashford@suse.com

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What Is “Open Source”?

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Open Source Is A Licensing Model

1. Free distribution

2. Source code

3. Derived works

4. Integrity of the author’s source code

5. No discrimination against persons or groups

6. No discrimination against fields of endeavor

7. Distribution of license

8. Not product-specific

9. Must not restrict other software

10. Must be technology-neutralhttps://opensource.org/osd

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Open Source

Free as in Beer Beverage

(Free to acquire)

Free as in Speech

(Free to use)

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More To “Open”

Than Just Code

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Open Source

• Open Community

• Open Collaboration

• Open Standards

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Let’s Talk

Linux

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What Is A Linux distribution?

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And This Is All

Free?!?

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Free as in Beer Beverage(Free to acquire)

Free as in Speech(Free to use)

Free as in Puppy

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• Hardware certification

• Software certification

• Security certification

• Testing

• Bug fixes

• New features

• Security vulnerabilities

• IP liability

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• Hard to find

• Hard to keep

Unicorn Engineers

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Paying for open-

source software lets

you focus on what

makes you money

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