Introduction
to
Free Software
Agenda
Software freedom
Free Software in education
Development model
Free software adoption
You can help
Software Freedom
The Moral Dilema
Friend asks for a copy of a software you own
You either break the law and make an illegal copy
Refuse to help your friend
Proprietary Software
Control your computer
Remove
No,
that
Keep it
Software
Proprietary Software
Take away what you own
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Chapter 1
Open clipart is a great efort by many
to include something of the same scale
as that for the other efforts so far.
But in all honesty, it is not done and
yet under progress.
The vertical toolbar on the left shows
Amazon Remove book 1984 Inkscape's drawing and editing tools. In the
top part of the window, below the menu,
there's the Commands bar with general
By George Orwell
command buttons and the Tool Controls bar
with controls that are specific to each tool.
The status bar at the bottom of the window
will display useful hints and messages as
you work.
Proprietary Software
Collect information about you
Personal Microsoft
Data
Proprietary Software
Tracks you
Mrs.X went to
place Y today
Proprietary Software
Restrict what you can do
Backup
my No
music
DRM
Proprietary Software
Helps NSA
By adding backdoors
By revealing bugs in their software
Should the Indian government use Windows?
Proprietary Software
Are a company's secrets
Against the spirit of sharing
How Sorry,
does this its our
work? secret
How Do We Solve the Problem?
Get together as a group
Build software that does not enslave the user
Software Freedom
FREEDOM 0: The freedom to run the program, for any
purpose
FREEDOM 1: The freedom to study and change the
program
FREEDOM 2: The freedom to redistribute copies
FREEDOM 3: The freedom to distribute copies of your
modified versions to others
GNU & FSF
GNU project started was
announced in 1983 by
Richard Stallman
Free Software Foundation
created in 1985
GNU software: GCC,
Emacs, GLibc, Bash,
GNOME, Gtk, HURD, etc.
GNU/Linux
Linux was made free by
Linus Torvolds in 1992
GNU/Linux was born with
Linux as the kernel and
Everything else from
GNU
Free Software
in Education
Free Software in Education
Better learning oppurtunity
How Here is
does this the source
work? code
Free Software in Education
Encourages the spirit of sharing
? Calculus
Trignometry
Free Software in Education
Interesting projects
Small project,
less useful
Large useful project
Your contribution
Free Software in Education
Learn best development practises
Expert Developer
Large useful project
Mentoring
Your contribution
Development Model
Development Model
Many individuals contribute over Internet
Anyone can contribute like on Wikipedia
Commercial companies also develop free software
Development Model
Don't like the software? Fork it.
Original Project New Project
Fork
Created
Advantages
Higher quality, fewer bugs
Stability
Security
Few viruses, adware,
trojan and spyware
Available in many Found
languages a bug
Free Software Adoption
Mobile Devices
Free Software make up
majority market share in mobile
operating systems
Android (80%)
Firefox OS
Sailfish OS
Mer
Tizen
Software used includes Qt,
Java, Linux, Sqlite, glibc,
OpenSSL etc.
Super Computing
485 of the top 500 super computers use GNU/Linux
Web Servers
Apache is the top web
server by market share
(35%)
Nginx is very good for
performance & scalability
(15%)
Data Storage
Open Source RDBMS databases are popular
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Most of the successful software around Big Data is Free
Software
Hadoop
Cassandra
HBase
MongoDB
Programming Languages
Most of the top programming language are Free Software
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Others (Perl, Lua, Erlang)
Or have Free Software implementations
C
C++
Javascript
Others (Scheme, Haskell)
Other Popular Free Software
Firefox and Chrome web browsers
LibreOffice suite
Eclipse and Netbeans IDEs
VLC and Mplayer media players
Git distributed version control
Tor for online anonimity
Barriers for Desktop Adoption
Few desktop PCs come with pre-installed GNU/Linux from
the factory
Windows application support
Properietary lock-in
You Can Help!
Free Software
Sometimes Free Software is not good enough
Freedom requires sacrifice for long term benefit
You Can Help!
Join and contribute to a Free Software project
Many projects have friendly communities
Spread the message
Help others use Free Software
References
GNU Philosophy: https://gnu.org/philosophy/
GNU Project: https://gnu.org
Debian Social Contract:
https://www.debian.org/social_contract
The GNU General Public License:
https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
Attribution
Image sources
Wikipedia.org
OpenClipart.org
Image Licenses
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic
license
Apache License, Version 2.0
Mozilla Public License Version 1.1
GNU LGPL 3
