The Evolution of “Open”

Byrne Reese, Open Source Guy

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Byrne Reese

Product Manager, Blogger, Open Source Guy, Hacker, Open Web Evangelist, Entrepreneur, Father, Teacher.

http://www.majordojo.comhttp://byrne.vox.comhttp://twitter.com/byrnereese

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A History of Open

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Ken Thompson

Dennis Richie

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Unix

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Not open source.

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Richard Stallman, a.k.a. RMS9

“Free beer”

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Free Speech

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commercialization

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GNU“GNU is Not Unix”

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Free Software Foundation

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GPL15

The genesis of “Open Source”as we know it today

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Believe it or not...

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Not open enough.

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Best form of advocacy: doing.

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Linus Torvalds

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Linux21

“Until the Linux development, everyone believed that any software as complex as an operating system had to be developed in a carefully coordinated way by a relatively

small, tightly-knit group of people.”

- Eric Raymond

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volunteer driven

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community driven

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Convergence of open source and open standards that made

the Internet flourish.

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Open Source

Cheap Software

Start Ups

Services27

Software as a Servicenegated our assumptions about

how software would be distributed.

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PHOTO: silosSiloed Data

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Petting a cat the wrong way.

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“information outlives software,

transcends software and is more valuable

than software”- Tim O’Reilly

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relevance of the license decreased

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importance of open data increased

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interconnectedness

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Enter:

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open source and blogginginformed the next generation of

online applications:

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Web 2.0

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APIs

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Mashups

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Cool.

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Cool, but not useful.

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Limited by standards(or lack thereof)

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Lessons Learned

• communities can be trusted to build things of value

• openness is not just about license, its about the data too

• every attempt to be closed will be met by forces to be open

• open tends to win

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Today

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The same pressures still exist.

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Everyone fighting to be the center of gravity

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growing need for decentralization

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Action Streams

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Everyone wants to own something

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On FriendFeed:

On Your Blog:

FriendFeed Plugin

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Facebook Connect

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The convergence of blogging & social networking

is surfacing a new set of problems

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Identity

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Authentication

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Leading the charge:

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In Summary

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• Blogging 2.0?

• There is still a lot to be done to solve these problems.

• Open Source is about helping and contributing.

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fin.

byrne@sixapart.comhttp://www.majordojo.com/

Questions?

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