The Rise of Open Source Software

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1 14 October 2017 The Rise of Open Source Software Tony Wasserman Presented at Open Source India 2017 cmu.edu/iii 2017 Integrated Innovation Institute

2 From Linux Asia to Open Source India Huge changes in 10 years Bangalore => Bengaluru HAL Airport => Kempegowda Airport

3 Where Are The Dancers?

4 From Linux Asia to Open Source India Huge changes in 10 years The open source community no longer talks only to itself Millions of open source projects (67M in GitHub) Time-to-market pressures for startups Visible success of companies that relied on open source

5 Bottom Line Open Source is Now Mainstream

6 Why Did That Happen? Changed attitudes by businesses and governments Developers drive bottom-up adoption Unhappiness with vendor practices of proprietary software vendors Emergence of numerous high quality FOSS projects Commercially available support for FOSS projects Economic Great Recession

7 Economic Great Recession Affected many countries in , with slow recovery afterward Projects didn t go away, so open source was seen as economical approach to doing more with less Successes less time to deployment good quality code lower overall cost Many organizations now look at a broad range of solutions

8 Corporate and Government Adoption Government policy for many countries Cost savings Less money sent to foreign countries Easier to customize for local requirements Intense political battles over FOSS in some places Lobbying by vendors of proprietary software Influence from Code for America, US Govt. 18F, more

9 Tony s Personal FOSS Use Metric How Much Can You Do With Open Source? Or Can You Live a Pure Open Source Life? (Do You Want To Do So?)

10 Can You Reach 100% Open Source Use? Yes, if you try very hard What about PDF? Limits on games, music, video, conferencing, devices, and more Problems with sharing and devices Most people aren t that religious about open source Co-existence of hosted, proprietary, open source Photoshop, GIMP, Darktable, or Pixlr? Firefox, Chromium, Chrome, Safari, or Edge? Flash videos (YouTube)?

11 The Future of FOSS is Bright Key Areas for Software Technology Open Infrastructure Operating systems Database management Open source in mobile Open source in the cloud Embedded open source code Open source connectivity

12 Open Source in Mobile Android for smartphones is market leader Source code available at source.android.com Open source developer tools PhoneGap (Apache Cordova), Appcelerator Titanium, Ionic, Angular, React, Sencha, Android SDK

13 Open Source Data Management Hadoop and commercial implementations MongoDB Cassandra distributed data management system Neo4J graph database system VoltDB in-memory DBMS PostgreSQL MySQL and MariaDB

14 Open Source in the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Back end for scalable web and mobile apps, e.g., node.js OpenStack implementations Open source apps hosted in the cloud Lots of open source in salesforce.com, other SaaS apps

15 Embedded Open Source Code Open source in devices Emerging systems Self-driving cars Personal robots Implanted medical devices People want to examine the code in safetycritical systems.

16 Open Source Virtualization Xen KVM VirtualBox Containers Docker Container Orchestration Kubernetes

17 Open Source Connectivity and Integration Talend Mulesoft WSO2

18 Successful open source vendors Market the features, advantages, and benefits of their products Market their support and professional services for clients Downplay the open source aspect Assume that the client is not going to want to edit code Often offer a commercial and community edition, with the community edition being difficult to find

19 The Future of FOSS is Bright Key Areas for FOSS Business and Community Growing community participation More mature projects Political and economic factors

20 People contribute to FOSS projects Many are paid by companies to do so To expand their own technical skills, build their portfolio and reputation To be part of an online community of [mostly male] peers To find paid work To make a contribution in the world Volunteering on a FOSS project is quite similar to many other kinds of volunteer activities.

21 You can contribute to the rise of FOSS Write code and submit it to the committers Test an application and submit bug reports and feature requests Join the project community and help others Write documentation or tutorials Help with localization or internationalization Donate money to projects (Document Foundation, Mozilla) Join the OSI at

22 You can create a business around FOSS Offer a subscription to provide updates to a project Offer support, training, consulting, professional services to businesses and governments Use the community project to attract users and offer a paid product in addition to the FOSS one Use the software in a physical device that you sell Sell advertising to generate revenue to support developers Sell T-shirts, decals, mugs, and other stuff

23 Don t Declare Victory Yet Will there be a Fall of Open Source? Windows dominates over Linux on servers and desktop Many proprietary software vendors Not much consumer demand for open source Proprietary code dominates in IoT and mobile apps Hard for newbies to find worthy open source projects Few businesses and organizations contribute back to open source communities Little marketing and brand development around open source

24 Problems with Cloud Computing and Mobile Cloud computing Mobile Developers use and modify open source No requirement to contribute modified code back Apple restrictions on open source apps Small number of open source Android apps (f-droid.org) Failure of open source operating systems for mobile devices

25 Summary and Next Steps Incumbent software vendors will remain in business Shift in focus toward openness and new technologies, where open source dominates Many people remain unaware or unconvinced about the value of open source

26 A Word from Mozilla New Global Partners Program Mozilla Open Source Support Project to write or enhance some software which is under an OSI-approved license Selection criteria Advance the Mozilla Mission Will the award make a significant impact? Appropriate funding level for work Reputation of project and its leaders

27 Contact Information Tony Wasserman Twitter: twasserman

28 cmu.edu/iii 2017 Integrated Innovation Institute

29 2017 Integrated Innovation Institute