IoT & Open Source Martin von Haller Groenbaek Partner, Copenhagen LES SCANDINAVIA: INTERNET OF THINGS & IP SEMINAR 25 November 2015
Agenda What is open source? IoT open source projects Business Challenges Page 2
Intro
Martin von Haller Groenbaek Partner, Bird & Bird CPH Co-founder Danish Open Source Vendors Association Co-lead Creative Commons (Ad)Board member of open source firms Clients among startups, blue chips and public sector (GLAM) Quantified Self "Open source advocate" Page 4
What is open source?
Development and licensing model Decentralised development "The bazaar" Fact: Hierarchy of developers Hobbyists or paid labour? Communism or market-based economies? "Capitalism on steroids Microsoft loves Linux Page 6
Licensing model Based on copyright "Copyright cancer? Hack on copyright Licenses with freedom for users Certain restrictions Not free as in "free beer" Not a contract Page 7
Free and Open Source Software Licenses Free Software Foundation Run the program Access the source code Make modifications Distribute copies Open Source Initiative Certain restrictions Don't discriminate Page 8
Copyleft Preserving the freedom "Quid pro quo" Release your modifications under same license terms Distribution Generel Public License (GPL) LGPL Mozilla Public License AGPL Page 9
Permissive licenses No Copyleft MIT License BSD License Apache Public License Page 10
Open source projects licenses GNU family -> GPL v2 and 3 Linux -> GPL v2 Firefox (LibreOffice 4)-> MPL 2.0 Android (Apache webserver) -> Apache License 2.0 MIT License -> Ruby on Rails BSD License -> BSD Page 11
Open source is everywhere and used by everyone Internet Servers Databases OS (and desktops) Applications and ERP Cloud computing Big Data BlackDuck 2015 Survey: 78% companies run on OSS, 3% does not use OSS Page 12
IoT open source projects
Population vs. IoT growth Cisco, Forrester et al. Page 14
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Open Source in the IoT Black Duck Software Page 16
Trends in IoT device OS'es Black Duck Software Page 17
Organisations AllSeen Tizen Genivi ConTiki Eclipse IoT Page 18
Business
Open source business models Customer (User) No license fees Vendor independence Developer (User) Marketing and distribution Broad adoption Services! Dual licensing "Open Core" Page 20
The Commons IoT vendors/users A common infrastructure Business differentiation in services Maturity of new market Larger ecosystem Joint R&D More security Page 21
Case 1: Maker of small device Core components for device is OSS SaaS solution built on OSS (Open hardware) OSS based platform for the product and service (vendor independence) Interoperability with other software and hardware Page 22
Strategic choices Revenue streams What proprietary software to open source? Under what open source license (Copyleft or permissive)? When? Governance of the open source project? Patents Trademarks Page 23
Case 2: Large manufacturer The hardware become part of IoT Should we develop own software or use third party? OSS? Existing OSS based platform the product and service (faster development) Interoperability with other software and hardware How does in-bound OSS impact own software? Patents? Page 24
Strategic choices Revenue streams What proprietary software to open source? Under what open source license (Copyleft or permissive)? Governance of the open source project? Patents Trademarks Page 25
Challenges
Challenges Security Regulation Heartbleed etc. Dick Cheney Volkswagen!!! Compliance Supply chain management Patents Governance Page 27
"But Open always win!"
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