Tim O'Reilly The New Age of Infoware: Open Source and the Web
I hope you don't mind if I wander around out here, rather than standing behind the podium.
I'm gonna talk about something perhaps a little different than you are accustomed to hear at a meeting about open source. Very often when people talk and think about open source, they first go and think about Linux, the GNU tools and the whole operating system layer. I like to bring peoples' attention to the role of open source in the web.
I'm the product manager for the central European region which includes Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This means I'm very tightly connected to our technology and especially the MacOS X server and its basic technologies and the foundation which we made widely available in terms of the open source. Therefore, I'm here to speak to you tonight about the Apple Public Source License and what it implies. I'll talk about where we are coming from and the background, what you need to know to understand about what is the importance of open source and what it means to Apple, and where we are planning to go. You will see a nice little road map, nothing very undisclosed, so stay cool. We will talk about what the Apple Public Source License implies actually, and what we want with that and finally, I will highlight some questions like why do we do it and why do we expect you to do it.
Timothy Druckrey: So, two quite interesting and very distinct models. There are obviously a lot of questions from the audience, so I think the best thing to do is... let's save some of the attack on Andreas.
Tim O'Reilly: Actually, I think I'm first in line...
Timothy Druckrey: Okay let's not save the attack, so we'll take questions, there are microphones, please step up to the mike.