Great movie with 3 guys sharing an apt not talking to each other but over iChat, and cell phones.

 

Massively connected world – many companies still see open source as a way to save a few dollars. Talking about philosophy, some random crazy idea in a philosophers head (say post-modernism) eventually makes it into accedemia then makes it into govt & business then into the underlying motive of the actions of common people.

 

In 1994 – painful to travel, cash & travelers cheques, airline tickeds, telphone kiosks & bureaux, poste restante – painful, painful

 

In 2004 – not quite as painful, ATMs & global credit, paperless air travel, GSM mobiles & calling cards, email & internet. Around the world everything is infested with internet café?s. Prague, Southern New Zealand.

 

Assertion is that there is an assumption of being massively connected. Everything and everywhere people assume connections.

 

Massively Connected Effects

• Travelers Tales (earlier)
• Web logs
• Web services concept
• Open Source Development
• Globalisation of politics
• Online activism in USA

 

Massively Connected Era

• Rapid Evolution
• In just one decade the world have become massively connected
• Tech Promotes Connection
• Device proliferation, growing bandwidth, service oriented architecture -> man dimensions/layers of relationship
• Fractal Architectures
• We are moving to networks of networks

 

Waves Of Change – scrolling stuff along the bottom

 

If you are massively connected;

• There would be no boundaries to defend
• Becomes a matter of digital identity
• Software becomes network-resident services
• Web services – not specific WS* but the concept of web services, spontaneously forming groups of independent services
• Software could not be priced on implementation details
• Subscription
• System stakeholders would be enfranchised in development
• The old system, put smart people in a room tell them to build something cool and then charge people to come into the room. That way does not work anymore. Open-source is the way to go not, then all the smart people are available or are able to work on it.

 

Historical Break – History repeats its self, it has to, no one listens

 

Yochai Benkler – has this idea for general production

 

In the old way – pre-industrial revolution

• Individual artisans
• Craft guilds
• Community Standards
• Shared methods

 

The artisans would build apprentices. This was a major shift in the economy of Europe. Created a cycle where artisans could add to the wealth of the commons, the commons would spend money they had on arts.

 

This was the demise of guilds.

 

Open source is a return to the  ?commons-based peer production?

• Community
• reputation-based
• shared materials
• Open Source communities – the new Guilds.

 

And the new industrial revolution?

Will exploit blind spots

 

Open source is about liberty not about economy.

 

People think of open source means free, the $ is not the important thing, the liberity is the important thing.

 

http://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.html

 

Open Source Methodology

• Commons-Based Peer Production
• Commons Based
• Facility by Commons-creating licenses
• Peer community
• Neglected
• Facilities by community governance
• Production
• Focus on code not specification

Open Source Communities

• Open Source: Agile Development Done By a Community
• If there is no community, there?s no open source; it takes more than just applying an OSD license to build this community

 

Retaining Freedom?

• Licenses license copyright. Who owns it and why?
• Who are the committers and who decided?

 

Why Open Source

• Research suggests the #1 factory is?
• Choice and Freedom
• Software features, support provider, platform
• The freedom to choose again
• Worth $10M to City of Munich?
• Quality – supposed quality, definitely no worse
• Open source development at its best is like XP on steroids, flamed by 100?s of people for each line of code you write
• More statble & reliable code

 

Freedom In Common

• Objective of OSI (open standards initiative)
• Freedom through standards
• Objective of FSF
• Freedom through source access
• Objective of Java & JCP
• Freedom through compatibility
• Object of OSI (open standards initiative)
• Freedom through licensing
• Each solving a different part of the same problems: freedom is the goal

 

Software freedom is the goal

• Freedom to use
• Freedom to choose
• Freedom to develop
• Freedom to profit
• I want you to have it for free and for it to be easy to use and there to be no lock in and for us to get it all

 

Are Standards Enough for us to keep our freedom?

Is Free/Open Source Enough?

 

No guarantee of freedom alone

Open source is about freedom to develop software. The goal is freedom (liberty) not about $

 

OpenOffice.org Protects Both Freedom Groups

• Open Source protects developers
• Open formats protect deplorers
• Interoperability protects investments

 

Apache Geronimo protects both groups

• Open source community protects developers
• Compatibility (JSR?s) protects deployers

 

 

Assertion based on the fact that Sun is using the community (commons) to generate wealth, then Sun contributes back to the community enriching the whole community. In the vein of the ?means of production paper?. His assertion is that this is a great thing. It?s a cycle that increases everyone?s wealth.

 

Microsoft Settlement – has sun sold out?

• The answer is of course no, ridiculous.
• HP has multiple businesses devoted to success of windows,
• IBM has 3650+ employees devoted to windows success,
• red hat recommend windows for the desk top,
• Sun has just made peace and is now work to protect interoperability, no employees dedicated to Windows stuff.