1. IL SOFTWARE LIBERO E OPEN SOURCE: UN BENE COMUNE STRATEGICO PER COSTRUIRE LA SOCIETA' DELLA CONOSCENZA JUAN CARLOS DE MARTIN POLITECNICO DI TORINO Questa presentazione e' rilasciata con la licenza CreativeCommons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/it/

2. FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE: A KEY COMMON GOOD TO BUILD THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY JUAN CARLOS DE MARTIN POLITECNICO DI TORINO

3. COMPUTER SCIENCE

4. MACHINE-ASSISTED PROCESSING OF SYMBOLS

5. NEW WAYS OF THINKING, REPRESENTING, EXCHANGING, CREATING AND STORING INFORMATION

6. COMPARABLE TO INVENTION OF WRITING

7. FULL IMPLICATIONS STILL LARGELY UNKNOWN

8. INTERNET

9. WIRELESS

10. EMBEDDED

11. APPLIANCES

12. ENVIRONMENT

13. OURSELVES

14. BILLIONS OF ALWAYS-CONNECTED SYMBOL PROCESSORS

15. FULL IMPLICATIONS STILL LARGELY UNKNOWN

16. COMPUTER SCIENCE

17. COMPUTER DRIVING LICENSE

18. COMPUTER DRIVING LICENSE

19. SOFTWARE LITERACY

20. THE GREAT EMPOWERER

21. THE ALL-PURPOSE PERSONAL COMPUTING PLATFORMS

22. “FREE” HARDWARE

23. FREE OPERATING SYSTEM

24. FREE APPLICATIONS

25. FREE NETWORK

26. USED TO BE THE NORM

27. 1984

28. UNIX IS PRIVATIZED

29. SOFTWARE TURNS HEAVILY PROPRIETARY

30. SOFTWARE TURNS INTO BLACK BOXES

31. FEW PRODUCE IT MANY (PASSIVELY) CONSUME IT

32. AS ANY ORDINARY TECHNOLOGY

33. BUT SOFTWARE IS ABOUT THE FREEDOM OF OUR KNOWLEDGE

34. OUR DOCUMENTS, OUR PICTURES, OUR DATA

35. NOT AN ORDINARY TECHNOLOGY

36. REACTION

37. VOLUNTARY, SPONTANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO A SOFTWARE COMMONS

38. BASED ON COPYRIGHT

39. FREE OPERATING SYSTEMS

40. MANY THOUSANDS OF FREE APPLICATIONS

41. AT LEAST ON PAR WITH THE PRODUCTS OF THE RICHEST CORPORATIONS IN THE WORLD

42. FREE FOR ANY COMPANY, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, OR INDIVIDUAL TO USE

43. FOREVER

44. 15 MILLIONS OF PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMERS

45. 100 MILLIONS OF PROGRAMMERS

46. IMPLICATIONS

47. FREEDOM FROM LICENSE FEES

48. PUBLIC MONEY

49. FREEDOM TO CHANGE, TO ADAPT, TO IMPROVE

50. FREEDOM TO LEARN

51. FREEDOM TO BE INDEPENDENT

52. SOFTWARE: THE KEY INFRASTRUCTURE OF A KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

53. SOFTWARE LITERACY

54. COMPUTER DRIVING LICENSE

55. FREE SOFTWARE: KEY TO BE INDEPENDENT TO LEARN TO GROW

56. ADOPT

57. SUPPORT

58. SHARE

59. thank you demartin@polito.it