Free and Open: A Historical Perspective
Software freedom. Open source development approaches. Commercial business models that incorporate open source software in some fashion. These interrelated threads have always had points of conflict an …
| Talk Title | Free and Open: A Historical Perspective |
| Speakers | Gordon Haff (Writer, opensource.com) |
| Conference | Open Source Summit + ELC Europe |
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| Location | Lyon, France |
| Date | Oct 27-Nov 1, 2019 |
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| Slides | Talk Slides |
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Software freedom. Open source development approaches. Commercial business models that incorporate open source software in some fashion. These interrelated threads have always had points of conflict and that has never been truer than in today’s cloud era.In this talk, Red Hat’s Gordon Haff will take you on a tour through how conflicting notions of ownership, cooperation, shared commons, and profit has played out since the early days of software and before. But this won’t be just a history lesson. There are today real and serious questions about what it means to have commercial software businesses that can thrive in a world of mega-scale public cloud providers delivering software in a far different manner than the world in which free and open source software was originally conceived.Does open source mean something different today? Should it?
