Is Free Software here to stay?
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„This will be the year of Linux on the desktop“
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The Netbook backdoor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ASUS_Eee_White_Alt.jpg
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The Netbook backdoor
DENIED BY USERShttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ASUS_Eee_White_Alt.jpg
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http://www.zazzle.com/i_love_smart_phones_hat-148564865729429126
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Android: 36%
Symbian: 27%
IOS: 17%
RIM: 13%
Microsoft: 4%
Others: 3%
Smartphone Market Share Q1 2011
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1689814
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Android: 10%
Symbian: 44%
IOS: 15%
RIM: 20%
Microsoft: 7%
Others: 4%
Smartphone Market Share Q1 2010
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1689814
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Hardware
Software/Apps
Operating System
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●Completely proprietary (besides some parts)●That's it
Operating system
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Dev tools
●iOS SDK: Developer program fee ($99/year)●Xcode (Objective-C)●Mac only
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Apps/Ecosystem
●Only on Apple's App Store●Not GPL-compatible („Usage Rules“)●The Usage Rules are very scary for every Free Software developer●Open Source software exists nevertheless
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Apps/Ecosystem
Fun fact: The Developer Program license agreement does explicitely forbid you to use the location services API for fleet management.
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Operating system
●First proprietary, then open, then proprietary again●Source code not available●No political backing by Nokia anymore
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Symbian
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Operating system
How many points out of 100 do you think Android would score in a test auditing its openness?
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Operating system
●Most parts licensed under GPL (Linux), LGPL (WebKit) and Apache License (Android specific components)●Trademark owned by Google●Source code released „at will“ by Google●Officially maintained by Open Handset Alliance which is not a legal entity
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Operating system
●Development behind closed doors●Linux kernel forked without merging back (who's to blame here?)●There exists a Contributor Agreement though it is highly unlikely that many 3rd party contributors exist●Very good documentation●No public Roadmap●Closed apps like Gmail and Market
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Operating system
Fun fact: Android scored 23 out of 100 points in the Open Governance Index
http://www.visionmobile.com/research.php#OGI
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Dev tools
●SDK: Can be freely downloaded, source in repo only●Win, Mac, Linux●ADT plugin for Eclipse●NDK: For C or C++ development
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Apps/Ecosystem
●Android Market: central app repo●Installation of apps directly is possible (easily)●Market is GPL-compatible
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Vendor ecosystem
●HTC: Sense UI is now (probably) open source●Motorola: Proudly presented by Google●Samsung: Unlocked bootloaders? Hired Cyanogen
==> All in all, vendors have not much to say
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Patent craze
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http://blog.thomsonreuters.com/index.php/mobile-patent-suits-graphic-of-the-day/
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http://esearch.oami.europa.eu/copla/design/data/000181607-0001
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http://esearch.oami.europa.eu/copla/design/data/000181607-0001
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Is there a way towards truly open smartphone OSes?
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Not as long as patent and related laws are revised
categorically!
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A Free OS needs to be governed by a community of users,
developers and vendors; not by a single company
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The Web is the only truly open, device-independent platform
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Browsers in smartphones are very powerful (in terms of
performance)
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Access to phone functions
●Accelerometer/Orientation => DeviceOrientation (W3C)●Location => Geolocation API (W3C)●Camera/Audio => HTML Media Capture (W3C)●3D capabilities => WebGL (W3C)●Offline apps => Offline web applications (W3C)●...
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Most probably 50% of all native smartphone apps could very well be implemented as Web
Applications
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Mozilla is one of the most important driving forces behind
this
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What are the major barriers for a wider distribution of web apps
instead of native apps?
●Finding apps●Launching apps
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Enter Mozilla's Web Apps spec:
https://apps.mozillalabs.com/
Allows devs to let the user install their website into his
browser
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The Web is the future of mobile Free Software!
Think about it when starting your next mobile software
project...