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Demystifying Free and Open Source Software

Demystifying Free and Open Source Software. Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace F/OSS in the Enterprise. Seth Galitzer (CIS) David White (CAPD) Kansas State University. Free Software – Richard Stallman. http://www.fsf.org/. Open Source Software – Eric Raymond.

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Demystifying Free and Open Source Software

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  1. Demystifying Free and Open Source Software Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace F/OSS in the Enterprise Seth Galitzer (CIS) David White (CAPD) Kansas State University

  2. Free Software – Richard Stallman http://www.fsf.org/

  3. Open Source Software – Eric Raymond http://opensource.org/

  4. Linux OS – Linus Torvalds http://www.linuxfoundation.org/

  5. What do we really mean? • Access to software • Access to code • Permission for redistribution • Everything else is philosophical debate

  6. When we say “free”... … as in ”speech”, not as in ”beer”

  7. Just because it's free (as in beer) It doesn't mean software companies (or you) can't make money from it

  8. Audience Participation Time Tell us a little about yourselves...

  9. Why not use F/OSS now? Fear Of Change

  10. Guess what • MS Office ribbon interface • Mac OS • Mobile devices • Online apps Users deal with change all the time

  11. Things F/OSS doesn't do well (yet) • Personal Finance • Video Editing • Project Management • GIS • CAD • Medical Sector

  12. Things F/OSS does really well (so far) • The Internet • Databases • Lots of other stuff

  13. Strengths in general • Security (maybe also a weakness?) • Consistency • Open data • No vendor lock-in • YOU decide what is best

  14. Desktop Applications: Office Productivity Libre/OpenOffice Word/Excel/PPT/Publisher AbiWord Gnumeric Adobe Acrobat Pro PDF Creator Publisher/InDesign Scribus

  15. Desktop Applications: Internet – Web Browsers Firefox Internet Explorer Google Chrome Safari Opera

  16. Desktop Applications: Internet – Email Clients Thunderbird Outlook Evolution Mail.app Claws

  17. Desktop Applications: Graphics Photoshop The GIMP Illustrator Inkscape

  18. Desktop Applications: Other • 3D Rendering • Media Management Banshee Amarok Songbird • Photo Management Shotwell F-Spot digiKam

  19. Desktop Applications The CloudTM =

  20. Enterprise Applications: Outward Facing LAMP Stack Linux Apache MySQL/Postgres PHP/Python/Perl

  21. Enterprise Applications: Your Users Digital Signage Ditigal Asset Mgmt Video Conferencing

  22. Enterprise Applications: You • Monitoring • Helpdesk Ticketing

  23. Enterprise Applications: Other High Performance Computing (clusters) The Cloud ™

  24. The Bottom Line F/OSS means choice

  25. Resources http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~sgsax/talks/demystifying_foss/ http://kan.st/GE

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