Chip Rosenthal
Unicom Systems Development
<chip@unicom.com>

Fifth Annual National Community Networking Conference
Open Source Issues
December 10, 2002

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Source Distribution

Right to Modify

Right to Re-Distribute

Community Supported

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FREE! FREE! FREE!

• The open source solution may be the better one, irrespective of price.
• Proprietary Software driven by:
  • Needs of commercial enterprises.
  • Needs of upscale consumers.
• Open Source Software driven by:
  • Developers with an itch.
  • Organizations with a need.
  • People who look and think a lot like you.

Some of the best network and computing infrastructure tools are licensed as open source.

• Apache - world's favorite web server.
• MySQL, PostgresSQL - relational databases.
• perl, PHP - scripting languages.

PHP-Nuke

• http://www.phpnuke.org/
• Web content management system.
• Ideal for community publishing.
• Released under GNU Public License (GPL).

MovableType

• http://www.movabletype.org/
• Weblogging tool.
• Individual, group, discussion comments.
• Be careful of license terms!

PhpWiki

• http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/
• Wikis are user developed web sites.
• Maybe best suited for developer communities.
• I have no clue what the license terms are!

Freshmeat

• Release announcements.
• Awesome directory with search/browse features.

SourceForge

• Developer community.
• Downloads, Docs, Support, More.

Exciting technology opportunities
await you when you open yourself
to the idea of open source.

Chip Rosenthal
<chip@unicom.com>