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Contact:Jean-Pierre LORREInnovation Director
+33 688 346 [email protected]
29th September 2015
Public research software dissemination: a view from the
open-source industry
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Jean-Pierre LORRE
● Innovation director @LINAGORA
● @jplorre
● https://fr.linkedin.com/in/jplorre
● VP Collaborative Project @OW2
● Open-Source community for Enterprise computing infrastructure software
● http://www.ow2.org
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Agenda
● LINAGORA
● Open-Source Value
● LINAGORA's Business Cases
● Examples of innovation dissemination
● Conclusion
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LINAGORA: First French investor in open-source R&D
LINAGORA develops « FREE FREE » software
No licence cost No fremium
100% of source code is available
We sell professional services
55
5 M€
Hanoï
R&D investment / year
Paris
ToulouseMontpellier
SophiaGrenoble
Lyon
10 11
46
30
R&D engineers
Hambourg
1 2
gSafe
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Free and Open-Source software
● Software based on license models that stress collaboration and are designed to encourage broad use
● Grant rights to use, modify and redistribute
● Source code availability
● Open-Source licenses families
● (A)GPL (Strong Copyleft): derivative work shall be distributed under the same license
● Prevents hijacking of developer’s effort
● LGPL: doesn’t require anything from the code that it links with● Enables widespread use of technology
● BSD and BSD-Like (Apache, MPL, EPL) : enables to use it for whatever purpose● Grants right for commercial use
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Interoperability & standards as drivers for Open Source
● Interoperability
● An open-source solution takes its strength from combination with other open or closed source solutions
● Community development● Modular architecture
● Extensible and flexible solution
● Lack of interoperability is not an accident● Interest for software editors that promote vendor lock-in
● Open Standards
● An open standard is accessible to everyone free of charge with no restriction and documented in all its details
● Open-source implementations of open-standards are critical for Information Society● The availability of the source code promotes open and democratic debate around the
standard specifications they intend to implement
● Allows validation (test-case)
● Produces stability (key for business)
● Increases dissemination
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Open-Source at the heart of innovation
● Main IT technology trends massively use open-source technologies
● Research needs high investments and results should be available quickly (“time to market”)
● Open Innovation – ODOSOS spirit (Open Data, Open Source, Open Standards) is largely used
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LINAGORA's business case
Research& collaborative
projects
OSSAOpen Source Software
Assurance
Product development& community management
Customersrequirements
Researchprojects'
Innovation requirements
Prototypes
Customers
SW Products' Innovations
requirements
OSS releases
Professional services
Research projects
Software products
Roadmap
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2005
Examples of Innovation dissemination
Jones
LGPL
Apache v2
http://petals.ow2.org
http://roboconf.net
V1.0 V2.0 V5.0
2015
Common Laboratory
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Conclusion: Open-source value for public research dissemination
● Open-source is a facilitator for public research dissemination
● Allows researcher to go on using and contributing to software results after the end of the project
● Community is key for sustainability
● Protects and facilitates broad usage of public investment
● Necessity for European Research Investors to promote widely known Open-Source repository
● Such as OW2
Thank you for your attention!
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