From a talk I did for a BCS event on the Opportunities in Open Source. We also digress into Cloud Computing and business models around it.

1. The OpenSource Opportunity
By
Buddhika Siddhisena
Co-Founder & CTO
THINKCube Systems Pvt. Ltd
<bud@thinkcube.com>
Member of BCS, LKLUG & FOSS.LK
<bud@babytux.org>

2. What is Open Source?

3. Technically Speaking...
Source Binary Code
code 010101010110101011010
(C/C++,Java,Pascal,Perl) Compile
101011010101010111010
101110101110101010
Decompile
(difficult)
Human Machine
Readable Readable

4. Philosophically Speaking...
Freedom Free Beer (gratis)
Vs

5. What is Freesoft
● The freedom to run the program,
for any purpose (freedom 0)
● The freedom to study how the
program works, and adapt it to
your needs (freedom 1)
● The freedom to redistribute
copies so you can help your
neighbor (freedom 2)
● The freedom to improve the
program, and release your
improvements to the public, so
that the whole community benefts
(freedom 3)

7. Get under the hood
(you have access to the code and no one is stopping you)

8. Not just behind the wheel
(With non-free (proprietary) software, you'll aways be just a consumer)

9. Groom our future
(FOSS was key to the success of OLPC project. Why?)

10. Better job opportunities
Source : http://www.fosslc.org

11. Better job opportunities
Source : http://www.fosslc.org

12. Better job opportunities
Source : http://www.fosslc.org

13. Be part of a vibrant community
(Few geeks from LankaLinuxUserGroup, aka LKLUG)

14. Go to top of the charts!

15. Start a World Class Organization

16. Work for a World Class
Organization

17. Meet awesome people

18. Make a “lasting” impression
(Inspired a new branch of software called Humanitarian FOSS)

19. Nice to get feedback
... at http://www.babytux.org/articles/howto/how2netknoppix.php.
It described exactly what I was looking for - booting Knoppix over the network without having
a dedicated machine with its own DHCP server.
I will primarily use it to copy my Gentoo installation to a notebook which has no optical drive.
But I like the idea of having a full-featured operating system ready to boot over the network :)
Hi People
For us in New Zealand, taprobane is the best linux we've used yet -- very stable with all user
applications seeming to be well chosen and best of their genre! Thanks very much to all the team.
Hi,
I just want to thank you for creating ii.do, it is simply the most clean, useful and versatile
gtd app I've ever used (I came from a gtd-apps tunnel like yours, tried everything!).
Have a nice day :)

20. Most importantly...
Have Fun!

21. Thank You
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