class: center, middle # LINGI 2401 : Open Source strategy for software development Lionel Dricot lionel.dricot@uclouvain.be lionel@ploum.net @ploum - @ploum@mamot.fr ??? --- class: center, middle background-image: url(https://github.com/ploum/lingi2401/raw/master/images/aaron.jpg) --- class: center, middle #The Right to Read A short story by Richard Stallman (5 minutes read) https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html --- class: center, middle #Can open source change the world? Let's group and present one use case --- class: center, middle #What Open Source told us? - Governance - Cooperation - Freedom of knowledge - Transparency - Security and Privacy - Decentralisation --- class: center, middle #Change the business --- class: center, middle #Imagine starting a business without open source --- class: center, middle #Tesla Patent Policy All Our Patent Are Belong To You Elon Musk, CEO June 12, 2014 Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology. Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology. When I started out with my first company, Zip2, I thought patents were a good thing and worked hard to obtain them. And maybe they were good long ago, but too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress, entrench the positions of giant corporations and enrich those in the legal profession, rather than the actual inventors. After Zip2, when I realized that receiving a patent really just meant that you bought a lottery ticket to a lawsuit, I avoided them whenever possible. --- At Tesla, however, we felt compelled to create patents out of concern that the big car companies would copy our technology and then use their massive manufacturing, sales and marketing power to overwhelm Tesla. We couldn’t have been more wrong. The unfortunate reality is the opposite: electric car programs (or programs for any vehicle that doesn’t burn hydrocarbons) at the major manufacturers are small to non-existent, constituting an average of far less than 1% of their total vehicle sales. At best, the large automakers are producing electric cars with limited range in limited volume. Some produce no zero emission cars at all. Given that annual new vehicle production is approaching 100 million per year and the global fleet is approximately 2 billion cars, it is impossible for Tesla to build electric cars fast enough to address the carbon crisis. By the same token, it means the market is enormous. Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories every day. --- We believe that Tesla, other companies making electric cars, and the world would all benefit from a common, rapidly-evolving technology platform. Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world’s most talented engineers. We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla’s position in this regard. ??? https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you My own experience with patents : https://ploum.net/working-with-patents/ --- class: center, middle #Open Science ??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science Elsevier VS sci-hub --- class: center, middle #How big software companies use Open Source - Google - Apple - Microsoft - Facebook --- class: center, middle #Google Summer of Code --- class: center, middle #More care about Privacy - Firefox - Exodus Privacy - Framasoft and "Dégooglisons" ??? https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/ --- class: center, middle #Change associations OpenCollective ??? It's still a pity to see all those "local economy associations" using Facebook as their main channel. --- class: center, middle #Change the political system --- class: center, middle background-image: url(https://github.com/ploum/lingi2401/raw/master/images/cumuleo.png) #Cumuleo.be --- class: center, middle background-image: url(https://github.com/ploum/lingi2401/raw/master/images/lobbyplag.jpg) #Lobbyplag.eu --- class: center, middle #Louis Michel and data privacy A 2013 scandal which was made public thanks to Lobbyplag.eu ??? http://falkvinge.net/2013/11/22/lobbies-switch-from-influencing-to-directly-writing-european-laws/ --- class: center, middle background-image: url(https://github.com/ploum/lingi2401/raw/master/images/lawfactory.png) #La Fabrique de la loi Also on GitHub ??? https://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr https://github.com/regardscitoyens --- class: center, middle #What's next? ??? Let's imagine the future here --- class: center, middle #Saving the Internet Currently strong recentralisation with Facebook, Google, Amazon --- class: center, middle #Redecentralizing the Internet - Tor - Blockstack - Blockchain's philosophy --- class: center, middle #New form of democracy - Meritocracy - Futarchy - Liquid Democracy ??? See democracy.earth --- class: center, middle #Mixing Governance and management - Colony.io - Aragon ??? Colony.io is used by Rloop http://blog.aragon.one/the-future-of-organizations/ --- class: center, middle « We are 21st century citizens doing our best to interact with 19th century designed institutions that are based on an information technology of the 15th century. It's time we start asking: What is democracy for the internet era? » Pia Mancini - TED Global 2014 ??? https://www.ted.com/talks/pia_mancini_how_to_upgrade_democracy_for_the_internet_era --- class: center, middle #Democracy.earth --- class: center, middle background-image: url(https://github.com/ploum/lingi2401/raw/master/images/liquiddemocracy.png) --- class: center, middle background-image: url(https://github.com/ploum/lingi2401/raw/master/images/smartcontract.png) --- class: center, middle #The identity problem What is your identity? --- class: center, middle #Network of trust - PGP/GPG - Democracy.earth - World Food Program Building Blocks - IDBox --- class: center, middle “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” R. B. Fuller --- class: center, middle « Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution. » — Clay Shirky --- class: center, middle #Generalisation - Recentralisation of power/knowledge/resources until it breaks (revolution) - Open Source was the technical foundation of the next/current revolution ??? How far are we in the current revolution ? People never realize when they live at a turning point in history. --- class: center, middle #Next week - Final deadline for your report. - Half of you present their projects. - No slides, only the website of the project and/or your contribution/bug report. ??? If it goes quicker than expected, then I let you decide what the next course should be. --- class: center, middle # Discussion time