Introduction to Web 2.0 & Free Culture

Introduction to Web 2.0 & Free Culture

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  Free Culture andWeb 2.0 Student Society of Computing of OUHK Presented by Dr. Haggen So Project Manager Creative Commons Hong Kong
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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Web_2.0_Map.svg (CC BY-SA)
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  Introduction A Vision of Students Today http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=119 (CC BY)
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  Introduction I did notcreate the problem But they are MY problems
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  Introduction Freedom and Survival
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  Computer History -MainFrame http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Honeywell- Bull_DPS_7_Mainframe_BWW_March_1990.jpg (GFDL)
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  Source Code • Computer Instructions are coded in binary format 00101... • A more human friendly method to program computer: /* Hello World program */ #include<stdio.h> main() { printf("Hello World"); }
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  Source Code (Cont.) • Convert source code into binary instructions by a computer compiler • Vertical market – one supplier for all computer needs • Source code by itself own had no commercial value -> freely distributed
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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Apple_Computer_Logo.svg
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  Apple ][+ Clone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Taiwanese_Apple_II_clone _Cosmo.jpg (GFDL)
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  Changes in ComputerIndustry • Personal computers - hardware and software could be sold separately • Money could be made by closing up source code • Some programmers sold the copyright of the source code of collaborative projects and stole of work of others • AT&T Unix incident
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  Richard M. Stallman http://www.stallman.org/saintignucius.jpg
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  Responses to theTheft • Release source code that could not be used commercially • Release source code that must remain freely available -> Software Freedom • 1983 GNU project, Unix Clone • 1985 Free Software Foundation, Free as in Free Speech, General Public License (GPL)
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  Free/Open Source Software 20+ Years Down the Road • Linux IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Track –2008 2Q $13.9 billion total –Microsoft $5.1 billion 36.5% Growth -1.7% –Linux $1.9 billion 13.4% Growth 9.4% (http://practical-tech.com/infrastructure/linux-server-share- keeps-growing/)
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  Free/Open Source Software 20+ Years Down the Road • Apache –Most popular web server –Always more popular than IIS (http://www.netcraft.com/) • Foundation of Web 2.0 –Facebook: Apache PHP –Twitter: Ruby on Rails
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  Why the Trend Choices
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  Why the Trend Firefox, Chrome… Internet Explorer Thunderbird, Evolution…Outlook Express OpenOffice, Abiword…Microsoft Office Pidgin, aMSN… MSN Messenger Linux, *BSD… Vista
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  November 2008 TopSuperComputer http://www.top500.org/
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  http://www.research.ibm.com/WearableComputing/linuxwatch/linuxw atch.html
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  Why the Trend Choicesthat are important for Survival
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  Why the Trend Searchfor “Open Source Financial Crisis”
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  Lessons to Learn Know your Freedom Exercise your Freedom Share your Freedom