24C3 - 1.01
24th Chaos Communication Congress
Volldampf voraus!
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Olivier Cleynen |
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| Day | Day 4 (2007-12-30) |
| Room | Saal 3 |
| Start time | 12:45 |
| Duration | 01:00 |
| Info | |
| ID | 2290 |
| Event type | lecture |
| Track | Society |
| Language | en |
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Overtaking Proprietary Software Without Writing Code
"a few rough insights on sharpening free software"
Free or "Open-Source" software, and in particular Linux, is doing extremely well technically. However, it fails to secure a significant portion of the protected, lucrative software market, especially for end-users. Can Free Software finally make a full entry into our society? The main obstacles to overcoming the domination of proprietary software, most of them non-technical, require thinking outside of code-writing. "Overtaking Proprietary Software Without Writing Code" will relate experience gained from the activities of the GNU/Linux Matters non-profit, and provide some hands-on advice for community members, taking a handful of relevant examples.
Pre-requisites are: A good understanding of the notion of Free/"open-source" Software and some of the main themes that surround it, such as DRM. There is no particular technical knowledge required.