1. The Business of Free Software Aditya Banerjee

2. Agenda What is free? Free Software Licenses Role of Internet Players Commercialization approaches Statistics Misc 8/3/2009 2

3. Free as in freedom Freedoms to: run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0) study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1) redistribute copies so you can help your neighbour (freedom 2) improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3) 8/3/2009 3

4. Licenses 8/3/2009 Source: http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/floss-license-slide.html 4

5. Too much freedom? 8/3/2009 5

6. Internet changes the dynamics The Cathedral & the Bazaar 8/3/2009 6

7. Before 8/3/2009 7

8. After 8/3/2009 8

9. Some major players 8/3/2009 9

10. Making money from free Really? 8/3/2009 10

11. The Linux way Value addition Contributing upstream Technical support Training 8/3/2009 11

12. The eclipse way Develop & open source platform Use non-restrictive license Core commercial products based on platform License fee Training Support 8/3/2009 12

13. Some numbers 8/3/2009 13

14. Web Servers market share 8/3/2009 Source: http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html 14

15. Web browsers: Usage share 8/3/2009 Source: http://www.thecounter.com/stats/ 15

16. Misc Revolution OS- http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409 Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)? Look at the Numbers! -http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html The Cathedral and the Bazaar - http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/index.html 8/3/2009 16