What is Free and Open Source Software

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Who is Olivier Berger ?
3. Quick poll
4. Goal of this presentation
5. Table of Contents
6. Principles
7. Free Software Definition
8. Terminology
9. Considerations
10. F.L.O.S.S. vs. Proprietary Software
11. Free Software
12. Proprietary software
13. Examples of Free Software
14. Geopolitics of Software Industry
15. Software Wars
16. Huge battle
17. Global impact on society
18. History
19. Free / OpenSource Software Development timeline
20. Importance today
21. Solutions for the server
22. Solutions for the desktop
23. "Sociology" of the movement
24. Who's participating
25. How is free software developped
26. Free Software movement
27. Open Source movement
28. Legal considerations
29. Software Protection / Control
30. The 4 freedoms, again
31. Protections vs. Control
32. Software Patents
33. Categories of Licences :
34. Choosing a licence
35. GPL and LGPL
36. FAQ: Open Source vs. Free Software
37. Choosing Free/OpenSource software
38. Quality Benefits
39. Being part of a new community
40. Why address this question in classes at INT
41. Free Software, Free Knowledge, and Research perspective
42. Being part of it this year
43. Free Software dynamics at INT
44. Conclusion
45. Miscelleanous
46. Reference and Bibliography
47. License of this document
48. Appendices
49. Open Source Definition
50. About this document