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What and Why Open Source

Tony Stanco, Esq. Director The Center of Open Source & Government http://www.egovos.org Tony@egovos.org Associate Director Cyberspace Security Policy & Research Institute The George Washington University Stanco@gwu.edu 202-994-5513 http://www.cspri.seas.gwu.edu.

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What and Why Open Source

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  1. Tony Stanco, Esq. Director The Center of Open Source & Government http://www.egovos.org Tony@egovos.org Associate Director Cyberspace Security Policy & Research Institute The George Washington University Stanco@gwu.edu 202-994-5513 http://www.cspri.seas.gwu.edu What and Why Open Source

  2. Thank you to IBM, Oracle, HP, Red Hat, DevIS, Novell and all the others for sponsoring the conference Big thanks to all the speakers for taking time out of very busy schedules to join us Sponsors/Presenters

  3. The Center of Open Source & Government has compiled the Open Source Reference Book 2004 About 1000 Open Source projects and companies in government, universities or industry Will be mailed to registered attendees on CD-Rom Paper samples in the Exhibit Hall Open Source Reference Book 2004

  4. Open Source has arrived At conference will hear what leaders in foreign, Federal and state governments are already doing with Open Source And what Open Source solutions vendors and integrators have available for government Open Source

  5. Software that can be used, copied and distributed with or without a fee Where users can freely modify the source code, which is included with the distribution What is Open Source ?

  6. If using Internet already using Open Source: Linux (operating system) Forecast to garner 45% of new servers by 2007 Apache (web server) Bind (provides domain name services for Internet) Sendmail (transmits email over Internet) What is Open Source ?

  7. OSS can have lower licensing costs Taiwan, India, Europe, Japan, China reporting expected savings either directly or from increased competitive landscape Ability to audit code for “back-doors,” “spyware” or security holes Promotes architectural diversity Lowering risks of monoculture and cyberattacks Promotes innovation by unaffiliated developers experimenting with code Reduces dependence on single software producer Why Open Source Software?

  8. Business models Licensing/Intellectual Property issues unresolved Challenges for Open Source Software?

  9. Will hear from participants throughout conference on benefits and challenges with Open Source Conference

  10. Should Government mandate Open Source? Probably not a good idea Amounts to failed Industrial Policy Level the playing field Open Standards, Open data formats Correct any market failure Then let the Market decide Best value for taxpayer money Based on reliability, security, interoperability, performance, ease-of-use, TCO and support OSS Policy?

  11. Open Source shows it can compete without government policy interference Market competition makes everyone better, faster, cheaper This is better than government locking into Open Source or Proprietary based on arbitrary mandates OSS Policy?

  12. Please enjoy the rest of this timely and informative conference as we discuss Open Source Conference

  13. Tony Stanco, Esq. Director The Center of Open Source & Government http://www.egovos.org Tony@egovos.org Associate Director Cyberspace Security Policy & Research Institute The George Washington University Stanco@gwu.edu 202-994-5513 http://www.cspri.seas.gwu.edu What and Why Open Source

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