[gnulinuxinasia] AsiaOSS 3 symposium (Hanoi)... report on trends in Asia
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- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 02:41:21 +0530 (IST)
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AsiaOSS 3 SymposiumHanoi, Vietnam Report : Trends in Asia
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Imran William Smith, Open Source Development,
TAD, MIMOS
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Slide Title \ General Asian Trends
- Policy \ Asian Linuxes \ Focusing on Business Models -
- Standardization - Education \ Specific Economies
- Developing - Developed
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General Trends in Asia
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Trend - Strong Government Support \ Almost all Asian Governments have a
stated policy (or are developing one) \ Equal status or preference for open
source \ Significant funding for projects to assist open source \ Motivation
is choice (less Microsoft) + sovereignty + local industry development \ Cost
is not the major motivator:
Developed nations concentrating on other advantages
Developing nations don't experience full costs of proprietary software
licenses due to high piracy rates.
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Trend - Asia Uses Its Own Linuxes, not just Red Hat etc \ Major
discussion is Asian Linux distribution
- do we have our own distribution?
- or just set of add-ons for other distros?
\ A few strong Linux distributions thriving:
Red Flag (China) Miracle Linux (Japan) (working with Red Flag on 'Asianux')
LinuxTLE (Thailand) Generally these succeed most where there is strong
localization needs.
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Many Nations Focusing on How to Make Money \ Move from production
(sale of software) to servicing:
- OSS maintenance - OSS adaption / configuration - OSS training - other
- assistance and support of OSS users \ Use different licenses (GPL,
- LGPL, BSD, etc) for different business models.
- see http://www.openfoundry.org/en/archives/000388.html
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Possible Classification of Business Models: \ Hardware Based:
- You have hardware to sell. - Software needed with it. - More control
- if you use Linux. - Less money spent on foreign licensing. - Build a
- community. - E.g. Sharp Zaurus - E.g. Many embedded devices.
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Possible Classification of Business Models: \ Service Based:
- Selling a service related to open source. - Training. - Support. -
- Consultancy. - Building / customizing bespoke software.
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Possible Classification of Business Models: \ Developing Software :
- Business case is more complicated. - Various ideas e.g. Red Hat, MySQL
Suggestion : 'find a problem in your country and solve it with open source'.
- If people can't afford it, work out how to lower the cost until they can.
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Additional Thoughts on Business Model \ Developers usually see open source
projects as very creative. - And they work harder, longer than less
creative project. \ Open source encourages people to say what they think,
including people from outside the organisation. - You get more valuable
input. \ Open source developers know they are sharing.
- And they like doing that, put in extra time/work.
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Additional Thoughts on Business Model 2 \ Your organisation may need to adapt:
- less hierarchical - more emphasis on sharing, openness - increase
- communication through all levels of the organisation - allow leaders to
- emerge whether or not they are project managers - practise openness - the
- more the public knows about your work, the more successful you will be
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Trend : Standardization (Technical, Certification) \ Standardization of
Linux 'Linux Standards Base' + ISO standard on Linux - LSB is a description
of a 'standard Linux' + methods to test/prove that (test suites, build
environment, tools etc) - And LSB's work is free (cost + freedom)
\ More standardization of accredited qualification e.g. LPI
growing in popularity
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Trend : Education \ Most Governments strongly encouraging their
schools +
Universities to teach open source \ Certification is increasingly
important \ Community is helping : HOWTOs, localized documentation
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Country Roundup
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Conclusion \ Asia is moving fast on open source \ Most successful
countries have Government, Community and Industry pushing together \
Important to think about business cases now -
\ It's a new industry, there's money to be made \ But don't delay too
\ long - Malaysia risks being left behind \ Open source does make entering
\ the market easier, but brands and reputations still count for a lot
\ Alex Banh, Sun Wah Linux 'look for a problem in your country, solve it
\ with open source'
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Q&A \ Or contact us:
http://opensource.mimos.my opensource <at> mimos.my
\ My personal details:
Imran William Smith, iwsmith <at> mimos.my
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