What is Libre (Free / Open Source) Software

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Who is Olivier Berger ?

3. Goal of this presentation

4. Table of Contents

5. Principles

6. Free Software Definition

7. Terminology

8. Considerations

9. Libre vs. Proprietary Software

10. Libre Software

11. Proprietary software

12. Geopolitics of Software Industry

13. Software Wars

14. Huge battle

15. Global impact on society

16. History

17. Free / OpenSource Software Development timeline

18. Importance today

19. Solutions for the server

20. Solutions for the desktop

21. "Sociology" of the movement

22. Who's participating

23. How is libre software developped

24. Free Software movement

25. Open Source movement

26. Legal considerations

27. Software Protection / Control

28. The 4 freedoms, again

29. Protections vs. Control

30. Software Patents

31. Categories of Licences :

32. Choosing Libre/OpenSource software

33. Quality Benefits

34. Being part of a new community

35. Why address this question in classes at INT

36. Libre Software, Free Knowledge, and Research perspective

37. Being part of it at INT

38. Libre Software dynamics at INT

39. Conclusion

40. Miscelleanous

41. Reference and Bibliography

42. License of this document

43. Appendices

44. Open Source Definition

45. About this document