I was always fascinated with Free and Open Source Software, FOSS. So I decided why not present it for an academic seminar? Here's the full PPT...

1. FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
----"share and share alike."

2. FOSS
By: MOINUDDIN AHMED
Roll No.-100-30-2005
MTECH IT, 1ST
SEMESTER
Gauhati University
ASSAM
FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

3. CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
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WHAT IS FOSS?
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POPULARITY OF FOSS
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LIST OF FREE AND OPEN SOURCE
SOFTWARES
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HOW TO MAKE MONEY FROM FOSS
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RUNNING A PROFITABLE BUSINESS WITH
FOSS

4. CONTENTS contd..
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FOSS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MODEL
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WHICH LICENSE TO USE?
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SHORTCOMINGS OF FOSS
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HOW TO START OR CONTRIBUTE TO FOSS
PROJECT
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FUTURE PROSPECTS

5. INTRODUCTION
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A very promising and profitable industry.
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FORBES - 65 software companies in the 2010 edition amongst
top 2000 large companies active in all kinds of industries.
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DataMonitor forecasts that in 2013, have a value of US$ 457
billion
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Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was the richest person by
selling software products.
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The success story of Oracle . The same happened with Larry
Ellison

6. ●
Conventional software mostly are proprietary
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Sealed inner mechanism
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Free and Open Source Software made with just the
opposite mindset
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The tremendous contributions to computing, both
research and commercial projects
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making easier for large group of people.
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growing phase, promising future
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In this seminar I have tried to simplify the notion of
FOSS, commercial and non-commercial projects.

7. WHAT IS FOSS?
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There are two terms to separate in FOSS.
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“Free software” is a matter of liberty, not price.
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Freedom to
− Run (freedom 1)
− Study how program works (freedom 2)
− Redistribute copies (freedom 3)
− Modify / improvise (freedom 4)
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“Open” mainly points to Open Source Code of the program,
available for others.
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get software at no cost but as per license we can enjoy the above
four

8. ●
going through phase of immense transformation.
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Currently it is worth $60 billion
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SourceForge.net hosts more than one million users,
involved in some way with approximately one hundred
thousand projects
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no real geographic barriers
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These figures speak volumes, something unique about
the philosophy of FOSS
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Freedom, grow beyond its creators
POPULARITY OF FOSS

9. Popularity of Apache Web Server

10. Cost comparison between Microsoft and FOSS Solutions
Microsoft
Solution
Linux/FOSS
Solution
Savings
Company A: 50
Users
$87,988 $80 $87,908
Company B: 100
Users
$136,734 $80 $136,654
Company C: 250
Users
$282,974 $80 $282,894
Sources:
wikibooks.org

11. Global percentage of people demanding Enterprise edition software that is foss-licensed (Gartner survey)

12. LIST OF FOSS
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a) List of FOSS Software that runs on Microsoft Windows, Gnu/Linux and,
in some cases, Apple Max, Unix and BSD operating systems
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Productivity based applications
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Wordprocessing - Open Office - http://www.openoffice.org/
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Publishing - Scribus - http://www.scribus.net/
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PDF Creator - Pdfcreator -
http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator
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Mail Client - Evolution - http://projects.gnome.org/evolution
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Compression - 7Zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
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Text editor - Notepat++, http://notepad-
plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
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Financial - GnuCash - http://www.gnucash.org/
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Internet Based applications
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FTP - FileZilla - http://filezilla-project.org/
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Remote connection - Vinagre - http://projects.gnome.org/vinagre/
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Web development
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LAMP component- EasyPHP - http://www.easyphp.org
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General purpose IDE platform - Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/
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CMS -Joomla

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Multimedia
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Image Editing - GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/
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Audio Editor - Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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CD Creator/Burner - Infra recorder- http://infrarecorder.org/
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Image Viewer - http://imgv.sourceforge.net/
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Video Editing - Kdenlive - http://kdenlive.org
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Systems
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Ghost - http://www.fogproject.org

15. HOW TO MAKE MONEY FROM
FOSS
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1)Dual license model
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released under a restrictive open-source license ,provide an alternative
proprietary license.
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You have some sort of monopoly in the market leader
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Motivation: Client likes product and needs it for commercial use. does
not want to breach the open-source license and is willing to pay
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Open-source license: GPL suitable license to this strategy because it is
restrictive
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Examples:
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Mozilla Foundation has a deal-partnership with Google and other
companies
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Apple Inc. offers Darwin for free, selling Mac OS X.
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Red Hat offers the Fedora for free, selling Red Hat Enterprise
Linux (RHEL).
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MySQL is offered for free, but with the enterprise version you can get
subscription, support and additional features.

16. 2)Dual product model
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penetrate the market by releasing an open-source product,
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sell a different product with an extended version, plug-ins or up-
gradation.
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Motivation: The user gets to be a part of an open-source
community process, contributes to the source and improves it.
Users purchase other related products from the project
professionals.
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Open-source license: MIT, BSD, Apache or any other non-
copyleft license.
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Example:
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Eclipse and its non open source plug-ins.
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Sun Microsystems offer OpenOffice.org for free, while
selling StarOffice.

17. 3)Professional services model
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This strategy requires a large base of clients
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the product must not be simple to use
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There is no problem implementing this strategy combined with one of the
other strategies discussed before
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In fact it is recommended as a complementary strategy for both.
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Motivation: We are the experts in this open-source project because we
wrote it, therefore clients would like to purchase support and other
services from us.
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Open-source license: Any
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Example:
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a) JBoss itself is open source but RedHat provides a support
subscription for JBoss Enterprise Middleware with prices from around
$6000 to $110,000 per year

18. 4) Open source bounty
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It is a reward, usually monetary, for making positive contributions to an
open-source project.
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Eg.BountySource
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Motivation: there is at least someone in this world who can solve my
problem.
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Examples:
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Sun MicroSystems has offered $1 million in bounties for OpenSolaris,
NetBeans, OpenSPARC, Project GlassFish, OpenOffice, and OpenJDK.
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The Google Summer of Code and the OSU Winter of Code provide
stipends to students working on open source code.
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Mozilla introduced a Security Bug Bounty Program offering $500 to
anyone who finds a "critical" security bug in Mozilla.
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Bounties are often used for implementing minor features, whereas
bidding and/or grants are more typically used for major features.

19. RUNNING A PROFITABLE BUSINESS
WITH FOSS
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Initial research for feasibility criteria.
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tool for strategic planning and decision support since
running a profitable business is not easy.
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Two methods for software models
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total cost of ownership (TCO)
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the return on investment (ROI)

20. TCO
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Direct Costs –those identified in traditional IT budgets,
including (Hardware & software
acquisition, operation and administration
costs, etc)
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Indirect Costs – those costs generated from IT users
including (Downtime due to misuse or mistakes, end-
user operations, continuous training needs etc.)
“TCO for free and open
source projects can never be Rs.0 “

21. ROI
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We need a method to measure something more important. How
much we will get in return on making an investment.
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A simple way to look at ROI
ROI=RETURN/INVESTMENT

22. FOSS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MODEL
STONE SOUP MODEL

24. LICENSES

25. SHORTCOMINGS OF FOSS
Lack of business applications
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Alhough GnuCash, TurboCash do exists, basic, polished
accounting applications as good as Tally do not have FOSS
equivalents at this time.
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Scarcity of competent people. It is rare for a software
developer to encounter, say, accounting problems.
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Interoperability with proprietary systems
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not entirely compatible with proprietary systems.
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For organizations that have already paid massive amounts of
capital into proprietary applications, may prove to be prohibitive
Documentation and “polish”
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Established FOSS lacks the user-friendliness

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No warranties- regarding virus and performance
related issues.
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Staff must be open source savvy-When compared
with existing proprietary systems. The cost of training
is considered as a major disadvantage when migrating

27. HOW TO START OR
CONTRIBUTE TO FOSS PROJECT
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Numerous websites hosting projects
Contributing Time/Skills
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Most open source software is built completely by volunteers (without
compensation) because they want a product that fits their needs.
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The list of skills of contributors may seem large, but every person has different
skills to offer and your skills may be what it takes for a project to evolve. In most
cases you do not need to be a programmer to help
By adding his hands, eyes and associated skills to their project he may take project
to the next level
Product Purchases
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As with the Membership and Subscriptions, by purchasing goods from the project's
store
Donations
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Feel free to visit the project's home page to see if a donation link

28. The laymen Contributions
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as a user can give back in a way that requires no money and
limited time.
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by filling bug reports and recommendation so they can fix issues
and adapt the product to better fit the needs of the current users.
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As you have seen from the list there are many ways to help the
community more in the long term.

29. FUTURE OF FOSS
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Currently, proprietary software is king.
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When you buy a new computer, you will be getting Windows That
is the "default choice".
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However, it is not the only choice! Equivalents available
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There's plenty of money in open source for commercial vendors.
Worth billions in IT world
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but there's also plenty of opportunity for customers to build and
support their own open source derived projects.
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Free from VENDOR LOCK-IN forever !
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We're in the 21st Century now. customers get to decide
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“The Customer Century.”

30. REFERENCES
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www.wikipedia.org
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www.dwheeler.com/
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www.foss.in
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www.oscon.com/
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www.opensource.org
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wwwr.oss-watch.ac.uk/
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www.gnu.org
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www.opensource.mit.edu/
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Localization of FOSS by Sarmad Hussain, Pakistan
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Open Sources Voices from the Open Source Revolution - Eric Raymond
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Open source approaches in “Advances in Geographic Information Science”
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O’Reilly Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing
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A primer on open source software for business people and lawyers,
Stephen J. Davidson

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