OSS and Innovation

François LETELLIER

www.flet.fr

F/L/OSS is Central to ICT Innovation

F. LETELLIERfOSSaFree/OSS & Academia Conference

Grenoble, 2009

François LETELLIER www.flet.fr

Who am I ?

In the software industry for 20 years

In F/L/OSS since mid-90's

One of the first individual members in ObjectWeb

INRIA 2003-2007, ObjectWeb E.D.

OW2 board member, ELC member, fOSSa SC

Freelance consultant on F/L/OSS strategy


New market

Existing market

New technology N. for a platform Existing techno.

Radical innovation 1%

<1% 10% No innov. 87%

<1%

Source: Innovativeness of open source software projects, K. Klincewicz 2005

Source Forge500 top projects


About 10%-15% F/L/OSS projects are innovative

The % is comparable in the proprietary software industry


Patents and the Regress of Usefull Arts, A. W. Torrance & B. Tomlinson, The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, Volume X, 2009


“Innovation is a driver of economic growth, productivity, job creation and rising living standards.

Innovation also promotes ICT competitiveness; in turn, competition leads to better products, improved consumer choice and, ideally, greater ICT uptake.”

Source: European Task-Force on ICT Sector competitiveness & ICT uptake,WG on innovation in R&D, manufacturing and services

http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/taskforce/wg/wg3_report.pdf


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# patents filed # publications Licensing

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# researchers # start-ups

R&D expenditure


Source: European Commission, “Towards a European Research Area, Key Figures 2001 – Special edition: Indicators for benchmarking of national research policies”


Hobbyists, part-time contributors

Volunteers or transparent efforts

Anonymous (collective)

Incremental

Free (gratis), Free (open)

F/L/OSS =Software Innovation Dark Matter ?


The finger pointing to the Moon is not the

Moon


FLOSS potentially saves the industry 36%+ in software R&D investment that can result in increased profits or be more usefully spent in further innovation

Study on the economic impact of OSS on innovation and the competitiveness os the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector in the EU, 2006, UNU-MERIT, NL


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Make firm boundaries more permeable to innovation

Innovation intermediaries

Partnerships between the scientific community and firms


Worldwide F/L/OSS Code BaseWorldwide F/L/OSS Code Base

““publish””

““subscribe””

ResearchLab

CompanyXYZ

PublicAdministration

CompanyXYZ

According to a protocol: the license

CompanyXYZ

Sell hw/sw complements

Sell substitutes

Offers servicesUses in production process

Uses at home/soho

Develops withtaxpayers money

Contributes as a hobby

Shares R&D onnon core-business

Builds on other works

Transfersresearch results


Geeky talk...

F/L/OSS is an innovation “bus”

for our Information Society


The existing base of quality FLOSS applications would cost firms about 12 Billion Euros to reproduce internally

This code base has been doubling every 18-24 over the past 8 years and this growth is projected to continue for several more years

Study on the economic impact of OSS on innovation and the competitiveness os the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector in the EU, 2006, UNU-MERIT, NL


“The Power of Collaborative Innovation is the answer to all the

big global challenges we are facing”

Tony BlairWorld Economic Forum

Davos, January 2008


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Technical ServicesForgeMailing lists, Wiki, etc.

Community ServicesGovernance frameworkActivities

Marketing ServicesProjects promotionBrand and awareness

Academia

Individuals

Companies Government

Systems Integrators

Software Vendors


« Open source projects involve « Open source projects involve norms of proprietariness that create norms of proprietariness that create

conditions for innovationconditions for innovation--

they are institutions that facilitate they are institutions that facilitate innovation, just innovation, just as the guilds wereas the guilds were » »

Source: « From Medieval Guilds to Open Source Software: Informal Norms,Appropriability Institutions, and Innovation, »

Pr. Robert P. Merges, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Nov 13, 2004


Individuals

Associationsof Individuals

Associationsof Companies


“There's no business model

for F/L/OSS!”


BuyBuy GetGet

F/L/OSSF/L/OSS

SubstituteSubstitute

ComplementComplement

SupersetSuperset

Bespokedevelopment

HardwareSubscription

Proprietary

Outsourcing

UseMigrate

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ContributeLead

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Open Core

Softwarepublishing

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BuildBuild SellSell


By 2012...

80% of all commercial software will include OSS elements

Source: Gartner Key Predictions for IT Organisations and Users in 2008 and Beyond,January 2008


2010

Mainstream IT shops will consider open source for 80% of their infrastructure software needs

Mainstream IT shops will consider open source for 25% of their business software needs

Source: Mark Driver, Gartner Research VP, The Gartner Application Development Summit, Sept 2005


Innovation &Technology Innovation &Technology from Academia & Gov’tfrom Academia & Gov’t

Share R&D EffortsFaster technology transfer

Gather real world needs

Complement of activity in standardization bodies

Place of Research in the Innovation EcosystemTrust and professionalism

Virtuous cycle between fundamental research and industrial applications

Global outreach

EC & France Funded R&D ProjectsRNRT Corsica, ITEA Pepita, RNRT Parol, RNTL Impact,ITEA Osmose, IST Mocca, Asia ITC COSGov, ITEA S4All

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F/L/OSS & Academia

Promote FLOSS code production & community growth as performance metrics in your lab

Participate in public funded projects with FLOSS dissemination strategies

Set up partnerships with FLOSS savvy industrial players


The history of F/OSS can be traced back to academic origins: distributing source code under a permissive license was the de facto rule in academia in the 70's.

Since then, F/OSS became a wide spread paradigm throughout the software industry, and its alignment with academic goals tended to be forgotten.

According to fOSSa steering committee members, According to fOSSa steering committee members, software innovation is a value creation process that software innovation is a value creation process that needs a new joint collaboration of industries, needs a new joint collaboration of industries, academia and F/OSS experts. academia and F/OSS experts.


Take aways...

Innovation happens in and on F/L/OSS

F/L/OSS communities are innovation intermediaries

Companies fund and leverage F/L/OSS based innovations

F/L/OSS brings new degrees of liberty in public and private funding for ICT R&D


Thank you for your attention!

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