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Today companies have a choice between building platform components on their own
- r sharing a massive global resource to
Showing Management the Light: Explaining the Business Strategy - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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shane@opendawn.com @opendawn Showing Management the Light: Explaining the Business Strategy behind Investing in Community Best Practices Shane Martin Coughlan shane@opendawn.com @opendawn Today companies have a choice between building
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The value of Free Software is not “free code” but “multiples of engineering investment.”
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Free Software helps stakeholders compete
- n products but collaborate on platforms.
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Free Software provides value by reducing development cost and time to market for individual companies in the ecosystem.
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Linux Foundation estimated that it would cost $10.8 billion to recreate a Linux Distribution like Fedora 9 in 2008.
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/sites/main/files/publications/estimatinglinux.html
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Today 78% of companies run some or all of their operations on Free Software and 88% expect to increase their project contributions.
https://www.blackducksoftware.com/future-of-open-source
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Projects hosted by Linux Foundation have a combined value of $5 billion. They would take 1,356 developers 30 years to recreate.
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2015/09/how-much-open-source-worth-our-new-report
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Free Software is in Enterprise, Embedded, Consumer, Automotive, Mobile… It has eaten the world.
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In an ideal world everyone using Free Software would understand how it creates value and how to engage with it effectively.
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However…
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Many companies adopted Free Software because suppliers, engineers or customers wanted it. There was no strategic plan.
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Case Study: A Large Community Member Learns about License Compliance.
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Case Study: A Small Community Member Learns about Supply Chain Challenges.
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This is not optimal for a company’s return on investment or for ecosystem sustainability.
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Development, legal and community best practice is important to reduce friction and to
- btain maximum value.
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Compliance is not an end goal: it is part of strategic investment in the ecosystem.
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Free Software depends on shared rules so that diverse stakeholders can work together.
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Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) started a project in 2006 to help support European organisations with best practices.
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FSFE answered hundreds of governance questions submitted online and via email.
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FSFE collaborated with gpl-violations.org
- n dozens of license compliance issues.
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FSFE created a network for lawyers to share knowledge that grew to over 300 participants across 28 countries and 4 continents.
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Engagement and subsequent support of initiatives to address challenges across the global supply chain is significant.
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