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Free and OpenSoftwareAccessContent

Prof. dr. Frederik QuestierVrije Universiteit Brussel

Workshop for Stimulate 10,International Training Program about INFORMATION

8th of November 2010

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My background

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➢ Teaching courses:

➢ Educational Technologies

➢ Learning Technologies

➢ Virtual Learning Environments

➢ E-learning design

➢ Departments

➢ Interdisciplinary Teacher Training

➢ Educational Sciences

➢ Former head of center for

➢ Education innovation

➢ Teacher staff training

➢ Virtual learning Environment

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My research interestsMy research interests

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Projects with CubaProjects with Cuba

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Projects with KeniaProjects with Kenia (Nairobi and Moi universities) (Nairobi and Moi universities)

Expertise Centre ICT for eduExpertise Centre ICT for eduTrainingTrainingConsultancyConsultancyResearchResearchPostgraduate master ICT in EducationPostgraduate master ICT in Education

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Research and Innovation Director

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Our social responsibility:how open is the future?

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Would you accepttools with these rules?

➢ You are forbidden to

➢ modify this paper-clip

➢ let other people use your hammer➢ use this hammer for removing nails

➢ tell others what is written in this book

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Why do we accept such rules for software tools?

➢ You are forbidden to

➢ copy➢ reverse engineer➢ modify➢ use in certain circumstances➢ use in certain countries➢ ...

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Electronic books?

➢ Would you buy or advise your students➢ electronic versions of (educational) books➢ if they were 30% cheaper than paper books➢ maybe many books on a good reading device ~ paper?

➢ Be aware: often➢ limited to 1 year

➢ no access in the higher years of study➢ limited to buyer

➢ no second hand buying or sale➢ no library

➢ no extensive printing

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Expensive and incompatible

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Text To Speech softwareon e-books

➢ Blessing for the blind➢ 'Copyright violation' according to

'Author's Guild' (publishers)

→ TTS disabled in Amazon Kindle 2 Remote kill flags discovered!

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DRM:Digital Rights Management or Digital Restrictions Management?

➢ Restricted➢ export

➢ copying➢ printing➢ Text To Speech

➢ in time➢ to buyer (no second hand market)

➢ biometric identification➢ user info “inscribed” in the work (Microsoft Reader)➢ access info sent back to publisher

➢ to certain hardware (e.g. Mac OS X - Apple hardware)➢ to geographic regions

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Regional lockout(DVDs, Videogames, UMD, ...)

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DRM

➢ is killing innovation➢ can prevent legal rights such as

➢ fair use private copying➢ time shifting➢ lending services (library)➢ 2nd hand resale of works➢ donation➢ access for disabled➢ archival➢ public domain➢ …

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Copyright Lawstarted good...

➢ UK 1710:

➢ “for the encouragement of learning”

➢ 1 copy for royal library and each academic library

➢ protection for authors

➢ against abuse and monopoly of publishers !

➢ reproduction privilege

➢ on request 14 year; on request 14 year renewal

➢ afterwards public domain

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Copyright Lawstarted good...

➢ US 1790:

➢ “to promote the progress of science and useful arts

➢ by securing for limited times

➢ to authors and inventors

➢ the exclusive right

➢ to their respective writings and discoveries."

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Copyright Lawstarted good...

➢ Balance between➢ stimulating authors➢ and allowing reuse

→ Private or non-commercial reproductions allowed

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Todaydisturbed balance

➢ Educational and scientific goals➢ replaced by economic goals

➢ Protection automatically, not on request➢ Copyrights most often again owned by publishers➢ Protection term extended:

➢ now 70 years after dead author➢ American & international lobby work

➢ pro➢ copyright protection term extension

➢ against➢ exceptions for private, educational and scientific use

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Todaydisturbed balance

➢ Technological anti-copy measures (DRM)➢ are bypassing legal exceptions and public domain➢ are protecting

➢ not authors or artists➢ but corporate profits and broken business models

➢ The law provides protection➢ for "technological measures",➢ in any technology device or component➢ which is designed➢ to restrict or prevent certain acts➢ which are not authorised by the right-holder.

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Limiting your control

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The horror of'Trusted' computing

➢ DVD User Operation Prohibition➢ HD-DVD key revocation system (disable your player)➢ Broadcast flag (no TV recording)➢ Advanced Access Content System (AACP)➢ High-Definition Content Protection (HDCP)➢ Image Constraint Token (ICT)➢ MS Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB)

➢ not protecting➢ users against viruses and malware,➢ but media companies against users

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DRM in cars

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Side effectsof DRM

➢ extra cost➢ extra waste➢ lower quality➢ less competition➢ less innovation

Digital Rights Management:A failure in the developed world,a danger to the developing worldhttp://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/itu_drm.php

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Software Patents

➢ Software can be protected by

➢ copyright➢ (not perfect, but acceptable)

➢ software patents➢ killing (incremental) innovation➢ killing fair competition

➢ Compare with patent on books with passionate murder story➢ Companies file patents to get protection against patents

➢ ~ People buy guns to get protection against guns

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Software Patents

➢ Valid and enforceable in US➢ Not valid nor enforceable in EU

➢ but already >30.000 EU software patents➢ registered by European Patent Office (€ € €)

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Secret data formatsSecret protocols

➢ Vendor and data lock-in➢ (changes) force us/others to buy (and buy again)➢ → viral➢ vendors don't want us to talk together or to share data➢ vendors want us to use buy their products➢ no free competition➢ no guarantee eternal access

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Monopoly abuse

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The computerof the future?

➢ # mobile phones = 3 x # PCs

➢ powerful performance

➢ positive mobile e-learning studies!➢ P. Thornton & C. Houser, Using mobile phones in English

education in Japan, 2005, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 21, pp217–228

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→ Dead of themulti purpose computer !

➢ (Initially) forbidden to➢ run your own programs➢ use other phone company

➢ Unlocked iPhones remotely destroyed

➢ Now➢ software requires

➢ approval➢ non disclosure agreement

➢ no approval for 'duplicate software'➢ e.g. no iTunes competition

➢ remote software kill switch

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iPad tablet-pc

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➢ Apple customers➢ “We want porn, if necessary with parental control”

➢ Steve Job, CEO Apple➢ “Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone”

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My fear

➢ (Media and software) companies

will do everything possible

to limit your possibility to copy their works,

or to maximize their profits,

even if it means that user freedoms and privacy

are reduced in internet, technologies and law,

to an unworkable level.

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Effect on education?

➢ Computers without programming environment➢ Black box devices and software➢ Point and click courses

→ less students study computer science

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1 computer per user?

➢ Esperenza Computer Classroom➢ with software

sponsored by Microsoft

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1 computer per user?

Computer access for every personis a nice goal !

But is there really a needfor one computer per user?

Microsoft:“maximum one concurrent user

per license (computer)!”

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Free yourselffrom dogmas!

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K12LTSPLinux Terminal Server Project

Networked classroomsFat server

runs the applicationsThin clients

visualize the applicationsneed no hard diskcan be 15 years old PC's

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"The most fundamental way of helping other

people,is to teach people

how to do things betteror how to better their

lives.

For peoplewho use computers,this means sharing

the recipesyou use on your

computer,in other words

the programs you run."

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Free Software

➢The freedom to

➢ use

➢ study

➢ distribute

➢ improve

the program

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The software Freedomsrequire access to the source code

→ “Open Source Software”Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS)

Source code: if encrypt(password) == encryptedpassword, then login=1, end

Compiled code: 001001011101010011001100001111011000110001110001101

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Free Software Licenses

➢ The freedoms are guaranteed and enforced by licenses, e.g.➢ GNU GPL (General Public License)

➢ The 4 freedoms + copyleft (share alike)➢ if binary offered, source code must be offered too

➢ (on request, at low cost)➢ redistributed modified GPL programs must stay GPL.

➢ BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution)➢ Attribution➢ No copyleft requirements for distribution➢ BSD code often in closed source software (MS, Mac, ...)

➢ Apple Public Source License v2

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Different kinds of software

➢ Proprietary software (closed source – 'commercial')➢ $$$

➢ Shareware➢ x days for free, afterwards $

➢ Adware➢ for free, with ads

➢ Freeware➢ for free (small projects and often spyware!)

➢ Free Software / Open Source Software➢ Free as in Freedom, not as in free beer➢ OSS, FOSS, FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software)

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ServersInternet / Institution

➢ Operating systems: Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris, Android, ...➢ Domain Name Resolving: BIND➢ Web server: Apache➢ Mail: Sendmail, Postfix, Cyrus, Exim

➢ E-learning: Moodle, Chamilo, Dokeos, Chisimba➢ Helpdesk: Open Ticket Request System, RT➢ ERP: Compière, SugarCRM, (Chisimba)➢ Library: ABCD, Greenstone, Koha, Evergreen➢ Institutional repository: Greenstone, Dspace, Eprints, Fedora➢ ...

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Free & Open Source Integrated Library Systems

➢ Greenstone http://www.greenstone.org

➢ Koha http://koha.org/

➢ Evergreen http://www.evergreen-ils.org/

➢ PhpMyBibli http://www.sigb.net

➢ NewGenLib http://www.newgenlib.com/

➢ ABCD http://reddes.bvsalud.org/projects/abcd

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Free & Open Source(institutional)repository software

➢ Dspace http://www.dspace.org/

➢ Eprints http://software.eprints.org/

➢ Fedora http://fedora-commons.org/

➢ Greenstone http://www.greenstone.org

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Desktop

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Linux

➢ GPL unix-like kernel➢ 1991 Comp Sci student Linus Torvalds -> 1000 dev, 100 professionals➢ GNU/Linux distributions

➢ (K)ubuntu (35K programs), Debian, Redhat, Mandriva, Suse, ...➢ With user friendly window managers (KDE, Gnome, ...)➢ Support for many languages, also the non-commercial profitable

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➢ Free Open Source version of Sun's StarOffice➢ Compatible with MS Office➢ Cross-platform (Win, Linux, Mac, ...)➢ Open document Format (ODF)

➢ XML based, OASIS & ISO standard➢ >50M users, 170K community members, 12500 developers➢ 60 languages➢ PDF & Flash export➢ Bibliographic manager

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➢ Platform independent web browser (Win, Linux, Mac, PDA, ...)

➢ 40 languages

➢ '101 reasons why Mozilla is better than MS IE'

➢ Standards compliancy, popup-blokkers, tabbed browsing, ...

➢ in contrast with MS IE which

➢ Security problems!➢ Only for Windows. (no longer for Mac)➢ Development was stalled for many years➢ MSHTML violates W3C standards

➢ Try validator.w3.org !

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FLOSS characteristics

➢ User friendly ← written by users for users

➢ Cross-platform ← recompile source code

➢ High development pace ← reuse of best modules

➢ High quality ← peer review, reuse = survival of the fittest

➢ High security ← peer review, Unix origin, modular, encryption

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DevelopmentLinus Torvalds' style

➢ release early and often

➢ delegate everything you can

➢ be open to the point of promiscuity

➢ Linus' Law➢ "given enough eyeballs,

all bugs are shallow."

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Book published underOpen Publication License

19 lessons for open source development

➢ Commercial development= Cathedral style

➢ Open Source development= Bazaar style

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The Cathedral and the Bazaarabout developers

1. Every good work of softwarestarts by scratching a developer's personal itch.

2. Good programmers know what to write.Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).

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The Cathedral and the Bazaarabout users

6. Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

7. Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.

8. Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone.

11. The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.

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The Cathedral and the Bazaarabout development

17. A security system is only as secure as its secret.Beware of pseudo-secrets.

18. To solve an interesting problem,start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.

19. Provided the development coordinatorhas a medium at least as good as the Internet,and knows how to lead without coercion,many heads are inevitably better than one.

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Business ?

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Gartner: 24% of software market

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Study on Economic impactStudy on the Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU, 2006, R.A. Ghosh, UNU-MERIT, NL. et al., 287 pp.

➢ FLOSS applications are 1st, 2nd, 3rd in many markets➢ High market penetration➢ 65% written by individuals, 15% companies, 20% other

institutions➢ FLOSS code base = $12B➢ FLOSS code base = 131000 programmers years➢ FLOSS code base doubles every 18-24 months➢ Proprietary software firms only responsible for 10% of

total software developers, so no cannibalisation fear➢ FLOSS can save companies 36% on R&D costs➢ Unique (European) opportunities to create new software

businesses

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Study on Economic impactStudy on the Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU, 2006, R.A. Ghosh, UNU-MERIT, NL. et al., 287 pp.

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Study on Economic impactStudy on the Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU, 2006, R.A. Ghosh, UNU-MERIT, NL. et al., 287 pp.

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"Open Source: Why Freedom Makes a Better Business Model"Mårten Mickos, CEO MySQL, 2009

➢ FLOSS➢ is

➢ not against ownership➢ not anti-commercial➢ not a business model

➢ but is➢ a smarter way to produce the goods➢ a smarter way to distribute the goods

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Success in FLOSS requires you to serve➢ those who spend time to save money➢ those who spend money to save time -- Mårten Mickos, CEO MySQL

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"Open Source: Why Freedom Makes a Better Business Model"Mårten Mickos, CEO MySQL, 2009

➢ Software freedom allows you to tapinto innovation power and network effectsotherwise not available

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"Seven open source business

strategies for competitive advantage"John Koenig, IT Manager's Journal, 2004

“Companies continue to waste their development dollars on software functionality that is otherwise free and available through Open Source. They persist in buying third-party proprietary platforms or creating their own proprietary development platforms that deliver marginal product differentiation and limited value to customers”

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Android

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business modelswww.flossmetrics.org/ 2009

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Joachim Henkel, 2004

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Why is FLOSSnot used more?

➢ Anti-competitive behaviour of closed source companies➢ Monopoly abuse➢ Secret formats & protocols

➢ Data lock-in➢ Vendor lock-in

➢ Not a lot of advertising➢ Not a lot of teaching

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Who canbreak the monopoly?

➢ Education➢ We teach MS because that is what companies use

➢ Companies➢ We cannot use OSS because our employees don't know it

➢ Employees➢ Growing number starts using OSS at home ➢ Not happy with inferior software at work

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Why for education?

➢ Social responsibility➢ freedom and user rights➢ home use for students without costs or piracy !

➢ Savings➢ Zero cost of software acquisition➢ Less administration effort➢ No license management effort

➢ Study of internal workings of software➢ Student projects

➢ experience international online collaboration➢ FLOSS knowledge = competitive advantage

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Why for education?

➢ Social responsibility➢ freedom and user rights➢ home use for students without costs or piracy !

➢ Savings➢ Zero cost of software acquisition➢ Less administration effort➢ No license management effort

➢ Study of internal workings of software➢ Student projects

➢ experience international online collaboration➢ FLOSS knowledge = competitive advantage

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Institutional FLOSS taskforce / expertise / innovation center

➢ Create awareness➢ Involve all stakeholders

➢ including highest management➢ Expertise & capacity building➢ Resources for experimentation & innovation➢ Provide support – sustainability

➢ Documentation➢ Training → certification

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Policies

➢ Purchasing policies➢ FLOSS, except if no good alternative➢ Ask

➢ argumentation➢ which alternatives considered

➢ Build or buy?➢ Open standards➢ Open courseware➢ Free & Open Licenses

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How to handlethe plethora of choice?

➢ define requirements➢ indicators of high quality & sustainability

➢ mature, stable software➢ active community➢ availability of support & documentation

➢ need/possibility to change the code?➢ need/possibility to participate in the community?

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When to migrate?

➢ Time transitions➢ at the end of existing contracts➢ at hardware / software upgrade times

➢ Consider migrating in phases➢ servers➢ desktop applications

➢ → multi-platform➢ → web-based

➢ desktop OS

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Key success factorsfor migration & implementation

➢ resources to experiment➢ an evidence-based choice➢ involvement of both technical and non-technical users in the

selection process➢ choice for a new system which is in all aspects at least as good

and easy as the previous one➢ reporting detailed migration plan to management and get their

approval and support➢ in-house expertise with open source software and communities➢ contact with the developers and users community➢ Constant communication with all stakeholders

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Advantages of being acontributing community member

➢ co-decide the direction of development➢ create extensions

➢ user requested➢ research driven innovation

➢ more contacts with other educational institutions➢ programming projects for students➢ better knowledge of the system➢ better trouble solving➢ possibilities for grants

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The open way

➢ avoid local customization without➢ contributing back➢ participating in the community

➢ establish an 'open source culture' of re-use, collaboration and sharing➢ Provide FLOSS repositories / CDs

➢ share experiences

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The possible effectsExample: extremadura

➢ poorly developed region → economic revival➢ based on FLOSS (customized GNU/LinEx)

➢ computer access for every student➢ saved >18M € on initial 80,000 school computers➢ total software cost: 1.08 Euro/PC/year

➢ bigger project➢ stimuli for companies, centres for citizens

➢ economic revival -> European regional innovation award

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Personal exampleE-learning software

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Where to find more FLOSS?

➢ Use your software package manager

➢ if your are using a Free and Open Operating System!

➢ Sourceforge.net➢ Hosting and tools for >230K Open Source projects➢ >2M registered users (contributors)

➢ Freshmeat.net➢ >40.000 projects, mostly Free Software

➢ Google: x AND GPL OR “open source”

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Where to find more FLOSS?

➢ http://livecdlist.com/

➢ If you want to test software without installing

➢ http://www.theopendisc.com/

➢ High Quality OSS for Windows: Firefox, Openoffice, Inkscape, Scribus, Clamwin, GIMP, Audacity, Filezilla, 7-zip, PDFCreator, Freemind, ...

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Total Cost of Ownership

➢ Free Software is about freedom, not price➢ In practice: zero cost acquisition

➢ Support is similar or cheaper because of competition➢ No license management / procurement needed➢ Cheaper hardware can be used➢ Less administration work➢ Bandwidth savings (local central update/software repository)➢ Training

➢ Usability tests➢ {MS Windows XP → Vista} = {MS Windows → Linux}➢ {MS Office 2003 → 2007} > {MS Office 2003 → OpenOffice}

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Privacy and security?

➢ From the European Parliament investigation into the Echelon system (05/18/2001):

➢ “ensure that sensitive information is only transmitted via secure media....”

➢ “If security is to be taken seriously, only those operating systems should be used whose source code has been published and checked, since only then can it be determined with certainty what happens to the data.”

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From open sourceto open innovation?

➢ Software development started Open Source avant la lettre➢ 1976: Bill Gates open letter to hobbyists: 'your sharing is stealing'➢ Modifyable nature and modularity ideal for fostering innovation

➢ All major internet software started open➢ TCP/IP, mail, web, newsgroups, irc, wiki, ...

➢ Community maintained software repositories➢ Live CDs➢ 3D desktops➢ Virtual Networking Computing➢ Netbooks, $100 laptop➢ Google (File system, Chrome browser, ...)➢ ...➢

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➢ "Africa can bridge the digital divide➢ by adopting open source➢ thus narrowing the effect of techno-colonialism"

➢ “Need for technology➢ that is controlled by local communities➢ and not by foreign companies,➢ that is public property➢ and empowers people to be self-reliant”

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Disadvantages?Issues?

➢ Plethora of choice can be overwhelming➢ Largest projects are high quality and well supported➢ But be aware of small projects

➢ (US) software patents could be used for FLOSS attacks➢ Not enforceable in EU. Africa/Asia/...?➢ Now: patent attacks against closed > against open source➢ In OSS: possibility to remove the patented feature➢ Legal awareness and willingness to comply is large➢ Patented multimedia codecs not included in main repository➢ DRMed content most often not readable

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Secret data formatsSecret protocols

➢ Vendor and data lock-in➢ (changes) force us/others to buy (and buy again)➢ → viral➢ vendors don't want us to talk together or to share data➢ vendors want us to use buy their products➢ no free competition➢ no guarantee eternal access

➢ Students need more and more (costly?) software➢ Students' IT diversity risks to be beaten down➢ Integration with other tools is hindered (e.g. indexing on

e-learning platforms)

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➢ De facto “standards”➢ Wrong term for something that is used a lot.➢ No real standards unless published➢ e.g. MS Office file formats

➢ De jure standards➢ Quality recognized by a standards organization➢ E.g. ethernet, WiFi

(Open?) standards

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➢ Definition EU commission:➢ The standard is adopted and will be maintained by a not-for-profit

organisation, and its ongoing development occurs on the basis of an open decision-making procedure available to all interested parties (consensus or majority decision etc.)

➢ The standard has been published and the standard specification document is available either freely or at a nominal charge. It must be permissible to all to copy, distribute and use it for no fee or at a nominal fee.

➢ The intellectual property - i.e. patents possibly present - of (parts of) the standard is made irrevocably available on a royalty-free basis.

Open standards

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Open standards

➢ E.g.: TCP IP, HTML, XML, ODF, PDF, ...

➢ Sometimes called 'open specifications' until approval by standards organization

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Office standard

➢ Open Document format➢ Developed by OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of

Structured Information Standards) and OpenOffice➢ Incorporates other open standards (SVG, MathML, ...)➢ ISO (International Organization for Standardization)

standard since 5/2006➢ Native format of OpenOffice, KDE Office, ...➢ Open (Document) Formats requested by growing number

of governments➢ Decision Belgian government 23th of june 2006:

➢ ODF obligatory in administration➢ in 2008 administration can only exchange documents in ODF

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Office standard?

➢ Microsoft Office Open XML (OOXML)➢ Complex

➢ 6000 pages➢ No incorporation of existing standards➢ Reference to unpublished old MS Office formats➢ MS needed 150 man years for Mac version → competition?

➢ Patent problems➢ Ecma (European Computer Manufacturers Association)

standard since 7th of december 2006➢ ISO fasttrack approval april 2008

➢ Many complaints about irregularities➢ No implementation in software

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EU recommendation

➢ For all parties involved,➢ the exchange of documents and data➢ between authorities, businesses and citizens➢ must be possible without technical barriers.

➢ The public administration➢ must not exclude anyone➢ from participating in an electronic procedure➢ owing to the use of a specific product.

➢ The Member States are agreed that in the future➢ electronic documents should be exchanged➢ fully on the basis of open document exchange formats

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Reflection task

➢ Which problems do you see (in libraries) around copyright, scientific journals, access, … issues?

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Copyright / journal / access problems for libraries

➢ $$$ for access to scientific journals➢ prices rising much faster than consumer price index➢ difficult in developed countries➢ impossible in developing countries➢ only for universities and largest companies

➢ problems for doctors, journalists, … the public

➢ Paper → Electronic subscriptions with centralized copies➢ No access (to old material) after end of subscription➢ All copies lost for the world

➢ if data loss at publisher?➢ if publisher goes bankrupt?

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The scientificpublishing model

Scientists Commercial publishersHave ideasSearch fundingPerform researchDescribe research Search reviewersReview Demand all copyrights Print (or serve online)Pay for scientific journals Make profit

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Activism

➢ "An Open Letter to Scientific Publishers"➢ Signed by 34,000 scholars in 2001➢ Wanted unrestricted free distribution rights after embargo

time of 6 months since publication

→ Unsatisfying response from publishers→ Foundation of Public Library of Science

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Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledgein the Sciences and Humanities

➢ free, irrevocable, worldwide➢ right of access to,➢ and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and

display the work publicly➢ and to make and distribute derivative works,➢ in any digital medium for any responsible purpose,➢ subject to proper attribution of authorship

➢ Published in a online repository by an academic institution, government agency, ...

➢ 274 signatories, including all Belgian Universities.

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Open Content licenses

➢ Free licenses

➢ Public domain➢ No control at all➢ No attribution required➢ Can be locked up in commercial works

➢ Free Documentation License = GNU FDL ➢ Interesting for technical documentation, manuals, ...

➢ Creative Commons Public License = CCPL

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Creative Commons

➢ www.creativecommons.org

➢ 6 combinations of➢ Commercial – no commercial use allowed➢ Modifications – no modifications allowed➢ Sharealike – not sharealike

Share what you want,keep what you want

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Creative Commons

➢ Movie➢ Wanna work together?➢ http://support.creativecommons.org/videos/#wwt

➢ > 1000 journals under CCPL !

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Why Open Course Ware?

➢ Why not: should we consider academic knowledge as (secret) Intellectual Property?➢ The dark ages of scarcity of information are over!

➢ (Peer) recognition➢ for teacher

➢ Whose course is referred to most?➢ Yours or the one one from your 'competitor'?

➢ for university/schools

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Why Open Course Ware?

➢ Increase quality➢ Teachers working together➢ Best course modules are

➢ reused most often➢ getting most feedback➢ getting better again

➢ Saving time & costs➢ Teachers can start building course from existing material➢ Creation of animated or interactive learning objects is

often too expensive for development/use by only one institution

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(Firefox) Creative Commons Search

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www.gutenberg.org (public domain)

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ocw.mit.edu (CCPL)

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www.merlot.org

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cnx.org

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wikibooks.org

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Example made with my studentsnl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Onderwijstechnologie

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OLPCOne laptop per child

➢ non-profit organization, education project➢ based on constructionist learning theories➢ aimed at first 6 years of study (often no more ed)➢ $100 laptops designed from scratch for learning

➢ minimal power consumption➢ hand or foot operated power generator➢ screen readable in sunlight➢ robust, water resistant➢ safe and environmentally friendly materials➢ low voltage➢ zero admin➢ wireless mesh networks Mesh

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OLPCsoftware

➢ Linux based (no costs; adaptable; no limits for study)➢ Completely new user interface➢ Student-teacher & student-student interaction

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OLPC deployment

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openmokoFIC 1973 smartphone

➢ open software (linux based)➢ open hardware design➢ wish for community of mobile

application developers

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Reflection task

➢ Which recommendations do you take home?➢ What can you do for a more open world?

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Recommendationsfor libraries

➢ Use FLOSS for➢ Integrated Library System➢ Repository➢ library computers

➢ Use multiseat computers or thin clients➢ Lend out or distribute CDs/DVDs with FLOSS➢ Provide links to

➢ Open Access journals and repositories➢ Consider local cache systems such as LOCKSS➢ If internet in your country is slow: take copies with you!

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Recommendationsfor teachers & researchers

➢ Publish your research and teaching material using➢ Free Licenses➢ Open Access journals➢ Open repositories

➢ Teach students FLOSS and give Free CD/DVDs

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Recommendationsfor universities

➢ Start with Open Source Lab and sensitization➢ Consider migrating in phases

➢ servers / (multiplatform) desktop applications / desktop OS➢ starting with new computers

➢ Policy: FLOSS, except if no good alternative➢ Ask argumentation and which alternatives considered

➢ Policy: open formats➢ Contribute to FLOSS➢ Share experiences

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Open Society?

➢ "How open is the future?Future Economic, Social & Cultural Scenariosbased on Free & Open Source Software"

Book: Eds. M. Wynants & J. Cornelis (Crosstalks)

Open Courseware andOpen Scientific PublicationsChapter: F. Questier, W. Schreurs

Openly published under CCPLSee questier.com, crosstalks.vub.ac.be

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Questions? Comments?

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Frederik Questier with Stimulate 10 students,VUB, 8th of November 2010

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Credits

➢ Photo Gears: Ralphbijker @ Flickr (CC-by)➢ Photo Linus Torvalds: GFDL. Permission of Martin Streicher, Editor-in-

Chief, LINUXMAG.com➢ Picture (open source business strategies) from IT Manager's Journal,

may 2004, with personal permission from John Koenig➢ Screenshot http://www.olsonbroserv.com/autorepair.htm ➢ Screenshot http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/05/right-repair-law-pro➢ Screenshot http://www.lockss.org➢ Screenshot http://www.doaj.org/➢ Screenshot http://www.retrovirology.com/content/3/1/55/abstract/➢ Screenshot http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/

➢ Picture of Stimulate 10 students by Kitenda Douglas Kelly