WOS 3 / Programm / Panels / Freie Software / Ökonomie der Freien Software
Opening Speeches Opening Keynote Freie Software Freie Software im öffentlichen Sektor Ökonomie der Freien Software Freie Software und Qualitätsmanagement Freie Video Software Freie Datenschutzwerkzeuge Offene Archive I. Emulatoren Beyond the Unix Paradigm? Freier Content CC I. Launch von Creative Commons Deutschland CC II. Creative Commons Summit Wikipedia & Co. Freie Wissenschaft I. Publishing Freie Wissenschaft II. Funding and Activism Art as Anticopright Activism Offene Archive II. Games Globalisierung der freien Wissenkulturen Globalisierung I. Globalisierung II. Internet Freedom goes East I. Internet Freedom goes East II. WSIS: Globalisierung der Zivilgesellschaft Freie Infrastrukturen Keynote on Peer-to-Peer Freie Standards Freie Funknetze Freie Suchmaschinen Urheberrechte Alternative Kompensationssysteme Die Zukunft der digitalen Allmende Free Software Economics Thursday, 10 June 2004, 15:00, Track 1 The economics of free software is particularly crucial to understand now that free software is beginning to have a major impact on business and government around the world. This panel starts with two success stories. Michael Tiemann, founder in 1989 of the original free software business, Cygnus Solutions, and since 2000 CTO of Red Hat, will talk about how free software has had a major positive impact on business. Julio Yuste from the Regional Government of Extremadura in Spain will talk about an inspiring and successful project to use free software as the basis for societal change, turning an underdeveloped region into a pioneer in the information society. Finally, Rishab Ghosh will draw some broader conclusions about the socio-economic impact of free software, especially looking at developer communities as informal skills development environments. Mod: Thorsten Schilling Director Department for Multimedia & IT, German Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn Michael Tiemann Vice President, Open Source Affairs, Red Hat, Raleigh, NC Organizing Chaos Over the past 20 years, Free Software and Open Source have proven to be powerful systems for organizing and allocating scarce resources, not to mention for stimulating and harnessing innovation that is often stifled by traditional software regimes. As Free Software and Open Source find greater use in a wider range of computing environments, they must increasingly find their place in some larger architecture, an architecture that is more often than not orthogonal to the question of software licensing terms. In this talk, Michael Tiemann will present some of the enterprise architectures he has encountered, the types of behaviors these architectures encourage or discourage, and a vision for how an Open Source Architecture can benefit from, and give support to, greater application of free and open source software technologies across private, public, and community-driven computing environments. Julio Yuste Regional Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Regional Government of Extremadura & Director of gnuLinEx Enterprise Project, Fundecyt, Badajoz, Spain Rishab Aiyer Ghosh Co-Programme Leader, e-Basics Research Unit, International Institute of Infonomics, Maastricht University, the Netherlands How Free Software develops skills and the local economy The main reason developers participate in the free software community is to earn and develop new skills. These skills have economic value to developers and employers. Furthermore, by increasing the degree of value that can be added locally - proprietary software inherently concentrates value addition with the proprietor - free software encourages the creation of businesses that enhance the local economy. Discussion

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