The council chamber of CERN in Geneva was full of exited engineers and scientists this week when the head of Ubuntu project was giving a talk. Mark Shuttleworth was talking about the future of the open source and the way the free software changes the world.
Shuttleworth started the talk by telling how he was exited to come and talk at CERN where science is made to change the world in a way that will affect our future. He continued by explaining how he sees that free software will also change in a profound and permanent manner the way we use computers as part of our everyday activities. It is not only that the free software has been catching up with the proprietary applications but the potential which has been built up during this process. Having different characteristics free software and open source development enables things that will achieve far greater goals than the current proprietary solutions whose development has been limited by a set of financial rules.
Then Mark discussed the current free software landscape going through his 13 theses:
#13 Pretty is a feature
#12 Consistent Packaging
#11 Simplified, rationalised licensing
#10 Presence
#9 Pervasive support
#8 Govoritye po Russki?
#007 Great gadgets
#6 Sensory Immersion
#5 Real real-time collaboration
#4 Plan, execute, DELIVER
#3 The Extra dimension
#2 Granny’s new camera
#1 Keeping it FREE
After the presentation the excitement of the audience was well seen from good questions and discussion. For us one of the interesting things was to see how a talented person with a clear coal in his mind really has potential to change how things are done in global scale. Let us remind that the project was founded only in 2004 and already in few years it has grown to be a globally known concept.
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