Open Source Software Economics, Standards, and IP in One Lesson
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Open Source Software Economics, and Standards, and IP in One Lesson
August, 2008
Stephen R. Walli
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Always question: “And that would be different from other proprietary or closed software how?”
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MakersUsersBuyers
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Source code for the software is always available, and the user of the software is licensed (always) to change and redistribute the software without fee, penalty or asking permission
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10 Lines-of-code per day1 Bug: 1000 lines-of-code
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“Making” Open Source Software
cost
functionality
time
Share the costs of value creation, maintenance, and support
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“A community is just a group of people that share a common interest – they don’t have to like each other.” – Bob Young, former CEO, Red Hat
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The maintenance cost over an application’s life time (~75%)The number of applications that never get fully deployed (~60%)
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It’s not a stack – Open your thinking
Hardware
Applications
Tools
RDBMS
App Server
OS
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It’s not a stack – it’s a network.
Hardware
Applications
Tools
RDBMS
App Server
OS
i.e. the “stack” is a view through the network.
Hardware
Apps
Tools
RDBMS
App Server
OS
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Geoffrey Moore’s“Whole Solution”
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“The early community is willing to trade time to save money; the late community is willing to trade money to save time. My customer is in the late community.” -- Marten Mickos, CEO, MySQL AB
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Value Proposition versus Competency
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Standards
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Standards and FOSS
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IANAL
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The Legal Risks of Open Source Software
vs.
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License Management and Compliance
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“All complex ecosystems have parasites.” Cory Doctorow
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Intellectual Property versus Innovation
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#1 Did you buy the Honda over the Toyota because it had more patents?#2 If Toyota then tried to license their patents directly to you: would
you?
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In Summary
• It’s just software• It’s just economics• It’s just business• It’s just software licensing• There’s nothing inherently “new” about developing
good software, communities, collaboration, standards, or software licensing
Always question: “And that would be different from other proprietary or closed software how?”
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