What and Why Open Source Tony Stanco, Esq. Director The Center of Open Source & Government Associate Director Cyberspace Security Policy & Research Institute The George Washington University

Sponsors/Presenters Thank you to IBM, Oracle, HP, Red Hat, DevIS, Novell and all the others for sponsoring the conference Big thanks to all the speakers for taking time out of very busy schedules to join us

Open Source Reference Book 2004 The Center of Open Source & Government has compiled the Open Source Reference Book 2004 About 1000 Open Source projects and companies in government, universities or industry Will be mailed to registered attendees on CD-Rom Paper samples in the Exhibit Hall

Open Source Open Source has arrived At conference will hear what leaders in foreign, Federal and state governments are already doing with Open Source And what Open Source solutions vendors and integrators have available for government

What is Open Source ? Software that can be used, copied and distributed with or without a fee Where users can freely modify the source code, which is included with the distribution

What is Open Source ? If using Internet already using Open Source: Linux (operating system) Forecast to garner 45% of new servers by 2007 Apache (web server) Bind (provides domain name services for Internet) Sendmail (transmits over Internet)

Why Open Source Software? OSS can have lower licensing costs Taiwan, India, Europe, Japan, China reporting expected savings either directly or from increased competitive landscape Ability to audit code for “back- doors,” “spyware” or security holes Promotes architectural diversity Lowering risks of monoculture and cyberattacks Promotes innovation by unaffiliated developers experimenting with code Reduces dependence on single software producer

Challenges for Open Source Software? Business models Licensing/Intellectual Property issues unresolved

Conference Will hear from participants throughout conference on benefits and challenges with Open Source

OSS Policy? Should Government mandate Open Source? Probably not a good idea Amounts to failed Industrial Policy Level the playing field Open Standards, Open data formats Correct any market failure Then let the Market decide Best value for taxpayer money Based on reliability, security, interoperability, performance, ease-of-use, TCO and support

OSS Policy? Open Source shows it can compete without government policy interference Market competition makes everyone better, faster, cheaper This is better than government locking into Open Source or Proprietary based on arbitrary mandates

Conference Please enjoy the rest of this timely and informative conference as we discuss Open Source

What and Why Open Source Tony Stanco, Esq. Director The Center of Open Source & Government Associate Director Cyberspace Security Policy & Research Institute The George Washington University