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The Stanford Open Source Lab is pleased to present "Innovation GoesPublic", a talk by Bruce Perens, a leader in the Free Software andOpen Source community and the creator of the Open Source Definition.Abstract:Open Source provides much of the software infrastructure for many ofthe world's largest companies and organizations: Merrill Lynch,Google, Pixar, Amazon, the City of New York, and probably you -although you might not know it. Innovative products like Linux,Firefox, and Apache are the market-leaders in their sectors, but thereare tens of thousands of Open Source programs, used for just abouteverything. But the economics of Open Source are non-intuitive: howcan you make money by giving software away? Why did IBM de-emphasizeAIX, after spending Billions, in favor of Linux, the product of aloose collaboration of programmers that it can never control? How canthe world's greatest city trust Open Source to help manage its jails?Perens will show how Open Source is often the most effective strategyfor creating and utilizing new innovation. He will explain theeconomics of Open Source and how it works for profit-generatingcompanies. His talk will be clear to beginners yet informative evenfor Open Source pros.Biography:Bruce Perens is a leader in the Free Software and Open Sourcecommunity. He advises large corporations and several nationalgovernments on Open Source policy. He is creator of the Open SourceDefinition, the manifesto of the Open Source movement in Software.Perens is a vice president at Sourcelabs, a venture-funded companythat provides Open Source services to Wall Street. He is a visitingresearcher at Agder University in Norway, funded by a national grant.He was HP's first Senior Global Strategist for Linux and Open Source,and was Senior Research Scientist for Open Source with GeorgeWashington University's Cyber Security Policy Research Institute. TheBruce Perens' Open Source Series from Prentice Hall published 24titles with Perens as series editor. Perens previously spent 20 yearsin the computer graphic animation industry, 12 of them at PixarAnimation Studios. He has a credit on the films A Bug's Life and ToyStory II.--To learn more about our events please visit The Stanford Open Source Lab blog: http://oslblog.stanford.edu/

• Release Date

  Mar 12, 2008

• Runtime

  01:17:47