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The Rise and Evolu0on of the Open Source So8ware Founda0on
EOLA 2012 Stephen R. Walli October 2012
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The Thesis
FOSS Founda9ons are essen9al to enabling the growth of FOSS Projects when companies want to par9cipate, contribute and adopt.
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Two Ra0os
~20 LoC/day 1 bug : 1000 LoC
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So8ware Economics
We have shared soIware since we wrote it.
Liberally-‐licensed collabora9vely developed soIware is the best re-‐use strategy.
“Plagiarism” in soIware is good and indeed
necessary.
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The Economics of Shared Development
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The Economics of Companies Collabora0ng
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Founda0ons as IP Management Machines
• This is the history of the FSF, the ASF, the OSDL/Linux Founda9on, and the Eclipse Founda9on
• Regardless of what each founda9on represents to its members and cons9tuencies, what they “do” is IP management.
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Henrik Ingo’s Observa0ons Henrik Ingo determined that the 9 largest most vibrant projects are governed independently by founda9ons (hWp://bit.ly/f3O34M) The tenth largest (is company supported) is an order of magnitude smaller
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Neutrality and Ownership
“There appears to be a glass ceiling for single vendor projects prohibi9ng their growth from the Large category upwards. ” — Henrik Ingo
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What is a FOSS Founda0on?
Founda9ons are non-‐profits* that provide: Legal Structure
Business Opera9ons Technical Services
* But they are s9ll businesses
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Founda0ons
* But they are s9ll businesses
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Corporate Projects
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Corporate Projects
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Why does it maKer?
Neutrality encourages contribu9on Clean IP encourages adop9on
Founda9ons act as community centre-‐of-‐gravity
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Neutrality Encourages Contribu0on (Inbound)
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Neutrality and Ownership
• Successful Projects Grow and Evolve un9l … – Apache SoIware Founda9on – OSDL/Linux Founda9on – Eclipse Founda9on
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Clean IP Encourages Adop0on (Outbound)
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Legal Structures are Important
• License (inbound/outbound) • Assignments and Contribu9on Licenses • Provenance tracking • Liability and risk management • CommiWer indemnifica9on
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Founda0on as Community Centre-‐of-‐Gravity
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Crea0ng Strong Communi0es
• Support an Architecture of Par9cipa9on • Make it easy to join the conversa9on • Support and grow commiWers • Support lines of communica9ons • Provide technical services + infrastructure (forges, code signing, etc.)
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Conclusions
While liberally licensed shared collabora9ve soIware development may represent the best soIware re-‐use strategy invented, FOSS Founda9ons are essen9al to the par9cipa9on of companies that can grow and sustain FOSS projects and their communi9esn long term
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Ques0ons?
Stephen R. Walli Technical Director, Outercurve Founda9on
hWp://www.outercurve.org [email protected]
hWp://stephesblog.blogs.com (Once More unto the Breach) hWp://www.networkworld.com/community/walli
@stephenrwalli