Resources for Go Open Keynote
During the keynote at the Go Open conference in Oslo, I am going to be mentioning several papers and articles. I've included links and a brief summary of each below:
Paper: Adoption of Open Source in The Software Industry
An excellent research paper paper produced by Reidar Conradi, Øyvind Hauge and Carl-Fredrik Sørensen from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The abstract describes the paper quite well, it is:
… a survey to investigate the adoption of OSS in the Norwegian software industry. The survey was based on an extensive screening of software companies, with more than 700 responses.
Analysis shows that close to 50% of the software industry integrate OSS components into vertical solutions serving all major business sectors. In addition, more than 30% of the companies using OSS components have over 40% of their income from OSS related services or software.
Link to full paper (188 KB PDF)
Paper: The Total Growth of Open Source
By Amit Deshpande and Dirk Riehle from SAP Research at SAP Labs
Software development is undergoing a major change away from a fully closed software process towards a process that incorporates open source software in products and services. Just how significant is that change? To an-
swer this question we need to look at the overall growth of open source as well as its growth rate. In this paper, we quantitatively analyze the growth of more than 5000 active and popular open source software projects. We show that the total amount of source code as well as the total number of open source projects is growing at an exponential rate. Previous research showed linear and quadratic growth in lines of source code of individual open source projects. Our work shows that open source is expanding into new domains and applications at an exponential rate.
Link to full paper (Formatted as blog post, thereby allowing comments)
Essay: Better than Free
An excellent short essay by Kevin Kelly, the former editorial of Wired. From the intro:
The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it. In order to send a message from one corner of the internet to another, the protocols of communication demand that the whole message be copied along the way several times. IT companies make a lot of money selling equipment that facilitates this ceaseless copying. Every bit of data ever produced on any computer is copied somewhere. The digital economy is thus run on a river of copies. Unlike the mass-produced reproductions of the machine age, these copies are not just cheap, they are free.
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April 7th, 2008 at 19:48
Zak, if I may suggest an addition quote that may be relevant for your speech, from:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39379900,00.htm?r=60