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Open Source vs Proprietary

M. Antoinette Jerom
M. Antoinette Jerom

The document summarizes a debate on open source versus proprietary software. It discusses definitions of open source software, popular open source licenses, and advantages of open source such as customizability, security, and lower costs. Open source is gaining adoption in government and enterprise due to benefits like avoiding vendor lock-in, lower costs, and higher quality from community contributions. Surveys find increasing enterprise adoption rates, with over 50% of new software to be open source in the next 5 years. Microsoft is also increasingly supporting open source.

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Debate conducted at Imperial Institute of Higher Education
"To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master. And in the area of computing, freedom means not using proprietary software." -Richard M. Stallman
Game Plan Round 1 Whats Open Source? How to Open Source? Open Source squashes Proprietary
Open Source vs Proprietary
Whats Open Source? opensource.org NOT ONLY access to the source code but also, Free Redistribution Source Code Derived Works Integrity of the Authors Source Code No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor Distribution of License License Must Not Be Specific to a Product License Must Not Restrict Other Software License Must Be Technology-Neutral
Open Source vs Proprietary
Licensing Open Source SW SW distributed under the license which follows the Open Source definition How to choose a license? Do you wish to give control of your code to others? Do you want to allow people to use your code in non open-source programs? If somebody uses your code in their program and sells their program for money, do you want some of that money? If somebody uses and distributes your code and improves it (fixes bugs or adds features) do you want to make them give you the improvements back so you can use them too?
Open Source vs Proprietary
Battle of Choices Criteria Public BSD/ ASLv2 GPL LGPL MPL/ CPL/ Domain MIT (Apache) (v2) CDDL EPL Code is protected by No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes copyright? Code can be used in Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes closed source projects? Program that Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes uses (incorporates) the software can be sold commercially? Source to bug fixes and No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes modifications must be released? Provides explicit patent No No Yes No No Yes Yes license?
Open Source vs Proprietary
The Hits Open Source Proprietary Customizability/Modifiability -> Better Limited Flexibility Fit Low Cost High Cost Tight security Comparatively Less Secure More Innovation Limited to the innovation of the few internal developers
Open Source vs Proprietary
Open Source vs Proprietary
Continuing to Strike Open Source Adaption of New Trends Faster Promotion of Re-Distribution
References http://www.opensource.org http://blog.marycamacho.com/2011/11/decision-tree- for-determining.html http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/how-to-pick- an-open-source-license-part-2/131?tag=content;siu- container
References Images http://www.slideshare.net/secret/2rFjfZ80QDK3zh
Why Open Source?
When users don't control the program, the program controls the users. The developer controls the program, and through it controls the users. This non-free or proprietary program is therefore an instrument of unjust power.
Game Plan Round 3 Current Track Record Future of Open Source
Open Source vs Proprietary
Government Arena In December 2000, the NSA publicly announced the development and release of Security-Enhanced Linux we recognized that open-source had tremendous potential within government technology systems. ~ National Security Agency (NSA) of USA Too many government IT projects have failed because they started without testing whether the end product was feasible. ~ Mark ONeill, head of innovation and delivery in the Government Digital Service (GDS), UK
Microsoft going Open Source Open Sourcing ASP.NET MVC4.0, WebAPI and Razor View Engine Becoming A Top-20 Contributor To The Linux Kernel Supporting open-source platforms in Azure Supporting Apache, PHP and Ruby on Windows Making Windows a great platform for open-source Wheel-Reinventing Reduced Including JQuery and Modernizr in ASP.NET MVC 3.0
Open Source vs Proprietary
Survey 30th May 2012 740 questioned 59% non vendors 41% OSS vendors 62% use OSS and platforms 1/3rd More than 75% OSS deployments Adoption rate of OSS in non-technical arenas increased by 42% Enterprise 40% Automotive Industry 59% deployments More than 50% SW acquired in the next 5 years will be Open Source
Open Source vs Proprietary
Open Source vs Proprietary
Reasons for the Choice Free from vendor lock-ins Low Cost Better Quality The quality of open source, and the ability to continuously improve, is now one of the top reasons for its adoption
References http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/open-source- and-the-national-security-agency-together-again/11079 http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/european- technology/how-open-source-software-can-head-off-it- disasters/705 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/open-source- driving-cloud-big-data-mobile-survey-finds/11015 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-is- serious-about-open-source-10-proof-points/12784 http://www.slideshare.net/secret/2rFjfZ80QDK3zh
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Open Source vs Proprietary

  • 1. Debate conducted at Imperial Institute of Higher Education
  • 2. "To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master. And in the area of computing, freedom means not using proprietary software." -Richard M. Stallman
  • 3. Game Plan Round 1 Whats Open Source? How to Open Source? Open Source squashes Proprietary
  • 5. Whats Open Source? opensource.org NOT ONLY access to the source code but also, Free Redistribution Source Code Derived Works Integrity of the Authors Source Code No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor Distribution of License License Must Not Be Specific to a Product License Must Not Restrict Other Software License Must Be Technology-Neutral
  • 7. Licensing Open Source SW SW distributed under the license which follows the Open Source definition How to choose a license? Do you wish to give control of your code to others? Do you want to allow people to use your code in non open-source programs? If somebody uses your code in their program and sells their program for money, do you want some of that money? If somebody uses and distributes your code and improves it (fixes bugs or adds features) do you want to make them give you the improvements back so you can use them too?
  • 9. Battle of Choices Criteria Public BSD/ ASLv2 GPL LGPL MPL/ CPL/ Domain MIT (Apache) (v2) CDDL EPL Code is protected by No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes copyright? Code can be used in Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes closed source projects? Program that Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes uses (incorporates) the software can be sold commercially? Source to bug fixes and No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes modifications must be released? Provides explicit patent No No Yes No No Yes Yes license?
  • 11. The Hits Open Source Proprietary Customizability/Modifiability -> Better Limited Flexibility Fit Low Cost High Cost Tight security Comparatively Less Secure More Innovation Limited to the innovation of the few internal developers
  • 14. Continuing to Strike Open Source Adaption of New Trends Faster Promotion of Re-Distribution
  • 15. References http://www.opensource.org http://blog.marycamacho.com/2011/11/decision-tree- for-determining.html http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/how-to-pick- an-open-source-license-part-2/131?tag=content;siu- container
  • 18. When users don't control the program, the program controls the users. The developer controls the program, and through it controls the users. This non-free or proprietary program is therefore an instrument of unjust power.
  • 19. Game Plan Round 3 Current Track Record Future of Open Source
  • 21. Government Arena In December 2000, the NSA publicly announced the development and release of Security-Enhanced Linux we recognized that open-source had tremendous potential within government technology systems. ~ National Security Agency (NSA) of USA Too many government IT projects have failed because they started without testing whether the end product was feasible. ~ Mark ONeill, head of innovation and delivery in the Government Digital Service (GDS), UK
  • 22. Microsoft going Open Source Open Sourcing ASP.NET MVC4.0, WebAPI and Razor View Engine Becoming A Top-20 Contributor To The Linux Kernel Supporting open-source platforms in Azure Supporting Apache, PHP and Ruby on Windows Making Windows a great platform for open-source Wheel-Reinventing Reduced Including JQuery and Modernizr in ASP.NET MVC 3.0
  • 24. Survey 30th May 2012 740 questioned 59% non vendors 41% OSS vendors 62% use OSS and platforms 1/3rd More than 75% OSS deployments Adoption rate of OSS in non-technical arenas increased by 42% Enterprise 40% Automotive Industry 59% deployments More than 50% SW acquired in the next 5 years will be Open Source
  • 27. Reasons for the Choice Free from vendor lock-ins Low Cost Better Quality The quality of open source, and the ability to continuously improve, is now one of the top reasons for its adoption
  • 28. References http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/open-source- and-the-national-security-agency-together-again/11079 http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/european- technology/how-open-source-software-can-head-off-it- disasters/705 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/open-source- driving-cloud-big-data-mobile-survey-finds/11015 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-is- serious-about-open-source-10-proof-points/12784 http://www.slideshare.net/secret/2rFjfZ80QDK3zh