Digital Tipping Point: Jon Maddog Hall brings a crowd to its feet 12
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- 2004
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- Jon Maddog Hall, Hall, Jon Maddog, Maddog Hall, History Of Free Open Source Software, Business Models for Open Source, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Brazil
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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. Thanks to Thomas King, a writer for Linux.com and LXer, for doing the rough editing for this series of interview segments!
This series of 15 video segments features Jon Maddog Hall, who has long been instrumental in guiding and promoting the development of Free Open Source Software, and in particular the operating system called GNU-Linux, sometimes called Linux for short. Among other things, Maddog secured the acquisition of a powerful commercial grade computer early on for Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel. This hardware was one of the things that allowed the Linux kernel project to gain greater visibility in the corporate user world. This was an important step in the commercial maturation of GNU and the Linux kernel project, as both projects together subsequently have become mainstream Free Open Source Software projects underlying the business operations of some of the world's largest companies. The support of major corporations is one of the forces that has allowed GNU-Linux to develop to a point where it is now visible and relevant to the average user, and might now start affecting how most people think of intellectual property and computing. So Maddog Hall was present early on to nurture the Linux kernel project across a key bridge in its development.
Specifically, this series of video segments captures a speech that was given by Maddog toward the conclusion of the FISL Conference 5 in Porto Alegre. It was a keynote speech, which means that it was heavily attended by hundreds of people, as you will see in segments 14 and 15. Maddog covers the importance of developing a thriving Free Software industry in Brazil. He gives an historical view of how the computer industry developed, a history in which he was an active participant.
Since this was such a large crowd, we could not get our camera very close to the stage, and so we had to zoom rather markedly to be able to get Maddog's face. As a result, this video is somewhat more grainy than we would like. But the audio is reasonably good, and Maddog is always a compelling speaker, storyteller, and historian, and so we are sure you will enjoy this classic Maddog talk. You will be amazed to see how Maddog connects with this crowd. Remember, this is a crowd of largely technologists, the kind of people that are (incorrectly) stereotyped as being reserved and not outgoing. But you will see in segments 14 and 15 that Maddog gets the crowd on their feet. Quite amazing. Let it not be said that the Free Open Source Software movement is merely a technological movement limited to making the best computer software. There is something else going on here.
It is worth noting that segment 02 of this series is our 1000th 5-minute video segment posted to the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Segment. It is mostly by chance that this segment happened to be segment 02, with a small minor tweak on our part. We rough edit and upload our massive tape library in the approximate order that it was shot. Gabriella Coleman's 13th segment of her second set would have been our 1000th segment, but we feel that Gabriella would see it fitting to defer loading her 13th segment in deference to Maddog's decades of contributions to the Free Open Source Software movement, and so we temporarily bumped her out of place. Her 13th segment will be segment 1017 instead.
In segment 12 (Tape 108~006), Maddog says that Free Software can make companies more profitable. Red Hat is profitable. EDS makes money with selling services. The number of companies that will be able to be profitable will increase as the acceptance of FOSS increases. "Software is like sex, it is better when it is free" says Maddog, quoting Linus Torvalds. But Maddog says that sex, like lunch is never really free. There are costs for creating Free Software. You need an Internet connection, a computer, storage, and back-ups. He says that there is a market for creating extensions to Free Software. There is a market for training in Free Software. There is a market for documentation. There is a market for systems administration. He addresses a crowd that like the free beer aspect of Free Software, and encourages the crowd to see the benefits of finding a business model. He says that he knew of a company that became 6x more productive by using Free Software.
In segment 13 (Tape 108~007), Maddog continues listing the advantages of Free Software to business. He speaks of a company in St. Petersburg, Russia, that can change its software overnight to meet a customer's needs, thereby being more responsive to the customer's needs. He encourages the audience to make money as teachers, consultants, value-added-resellers, integrators, programmers, or systems administrators. He says that it is "okay" to make money in Free Software production and distribution, which Maddog must have felt bore emphasizing in 2004 to a crowd that he concluded was probably more focused on greater great code, and less focused on financial sustainability. He emphasizes that it is important to build a Free Software industry in Brazil. He said that he didn't want the crowd to give away all of its work. If companies need programming, he says, why now hire a Free Software programmer to do that work? Hire Free Software systems administrators. Encourage Free Software development in Brazilian universities, and encourage those universities to work with Brazilian industry to commercialize that work. He cites examples of the already growing Free Software industry in Brazil, and says that the next step should be to give tax breaks to companies that use Free Software in Brazil. Give tax breaks to companies that re-purpose legacy computers and give the computers to the needy. Fund public universities that do Free Software research, not proprietary research. Build supercomputing centers, so that businesses can share the resources of those supercomputers. Teach students how to do parallel programming to maximize efficiency. He asks everyone in the room to bring 2 more people to Free Software next year.
This footage is our raw rough-cut footage. It lacks transitions, music, special effectsor finish rendering. It is our "source code". Please feel free to rip, mix and burn this footage consistent with our Creative Commons license as disclosed on this page.
All of the segments in this series can be found here:
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_003.ogg (segment 01)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_004.ogg (segment 02)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_005.ogg (segment 03)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_006.ogg (segment 04)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_007.ogg (segment 05)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_008.ogg (segment 06)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv108_pa_20_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_001.ogg (segment 07)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv108_pa_20_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_002.ogg (segment 08)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv108_pa_20_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_003.ogg (segment 09)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv108_pa_20_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_004.ogg (segment 10)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv108_pa_20_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_005.ogg (segment 11)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv108_pa_20_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_006.ogg (segment 12)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv108_pa_20_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_007.ogg (segment 13)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv108_pa_20_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_008.ogg (segment 14)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv108_pa_20_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_009.ogg (segment 15)
If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at einfeld@gmail.com. Your work will be credited and posted on this page.
The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt at digitaltippingpoint.com.
Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_108
and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 006, Jon Maddog Hall
You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Thanks for viewing our video!
This series of 15 video segments features Jon Maddog Hall, who has long been instrumental in guiding and promoting the development of Free Open Source Software, and in particular the operating system called GNU-Linux, sometimes called Linux for short. Among other things, Maddog secured the acquisition of a powerful commercial grade computer early on for Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel. This hardware was one of the things that allowed the Linux kernel project to gain greater visibility in the corporate user world. This was an important step in the commercial maturation of GNU and the Linux kernel project, as both projects together subsequently have become mainstream Free Open Source Software projects underlying the business operations of some of the world's largest companies. The support of major corporations is one of the forces that has allowed GNU-Linux to develop to a point where it is now visible and relevant to the average user, and might now start affecting how most people think of intellectual property and computing. So Maddog Hall was present early on to nurture the Linux kernel project across a key bridge in its development.
Specifically, this series of video segments captures a speech that was given by Maddog toward the conclusion of the FISL Conference 5 in Porto Alegre. It was a keynote speech, which means that it was heavily attended by hundreds of people, as you will see in segments 14 and 15. Maddog covers the importance of developing a thriving Free Software industry in Brazil. He gives an historical view of how the computer industry developed, a history in which he was an active participant.
Since this was such a large crowd, we could not get our camera very close to the stage, and so we had to zoom rather markedly to be able to get Maddog's face. As a result, this video is somewhat more grainy than we would like. But the audio is reasonably good, and Maddog is always a compelling speaker, storyteller, and historian, and so we are sure you will enjoy this classic Maddog talk. You will be amazed to see how Maddog connects with this crowd. Remember, this is a crowd of largely technologists, the kind of people that are (incorrectly) stereotyped as being reserved and not outgoing. But you will see in segments 14 and 15 that Maddog gets the crowd on their feet. Quite amazing. Let it not be said that the Free Open Source Software movement is merely a technological movement limited to making the best computer software. There is something else going on here.
It is worth noting that segment 02 of this series is our 1000th 5-minute video segment posted to the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Segment. It is mostly by chance that this segment happened to be segment 02, with a small minor tweak on our part. We rough edit and upload our massive tape library in the approximate order that it was shot. Gabriella Coleman's 13th segment of her second set would have been our 1000th segment, but we feel that Gabriella would see it fitting to defer loading her 13th segment in deference to Maddog's decades of contributions to the Free Open Source Software movement, and so we temporarily bumped her out of place. Her 13th segment will be segment 1017 instead.
In segment 12 (Tape 108~006), Maddog says that Free Software can make companies more profitable. Red Hat is profitable. EDS makes money with selling services. The number of companies that will be able to be profitable will increase as the acceptance of FOSS increases. "Software is like sex, it is better when it is free" says Maddog, quoting Linus Torvalds. But Maddog says that sex, like lunch is never really free. There are costs for creating Free Software. You need an Internet connection, a computer, storage, and back-ups. He says that there is a market for creating extensions to Free Software. There is a market for training in Free Software. There is a market for documentation. There is a market for systems administration. He addresses a crowd that like the free beer aspect of Free Software, and encourages the crowd to see the benefits of finding a business model. He says that he knew of a company that became 6x more productive by using Free Software.
In segment 13 (Tape 108~007), Maddog continues listing the advantages of Free Software to business. He speaks of a company in St. Petersburg, Russia, that can change its software overnight to meet a customer's needs, thereby being more responsive to the customer's needs. He encourages the audience to make money as teachers, consultants, value-added-resellers, integrators, programmers, or systems administrators. He says that it is "okay" to make money in Free Software production and distribution, which Maddog must have felt bore emphasizing in 2004 to a crowd that he concluded was probably more focused on greater great code, and less focused on financial sustainability. He emphasizes that it is important to build a Free Software industry in Brazil. He said that he didn't want the crowd to give away all of its work. If companies need programming, he says, why now hire a Free Software programmer to do that work? Hire Free Software systems administrators. Encourage Free Software development in Brazilian universities, and encourage those universities to work with Brazilian industry to commercialize that work. He cites examples of the already growing Free Software industry in Brazil, and says that the next step should be to give tax breaks to companies that use Free Software in Brazil. Give tax breaks to companies that re-purpose legacy computers and give the computers to the needy. Fund public universities that do Free Software research, not proprietary research. Build supercomputing centers, so that businesses can share the resources of those supercomputers. Teach students how to do parallel programming to maximize efficiency. He asks everyone in the room to bring 2 more people to Free Software next year.
This footage is our raw rough-cut footage. It lacks transitions, music, special effectsor finish rendering. It is our "source code". Please feel free to rip, mix and burn this footage consistent with our Creative Commons license as disclosed on this page.
All of the segments in this series can be found here:
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_003.ogg (segment 01)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_004.ogg (segment 02)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_005.ogg (segment 03)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_006.ogg (segment 04)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_007.ogg (segment 05)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_008.ogg (segment 06)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv108_pa_20_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_001.ogg (segment 07)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv108_pa_20_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_002.ogg (segment 08)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv108_pa_20_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_003.ogg (segment 09)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv108_pa_20_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_004.ogg (segment 10)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv108_pa_20_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_005.ogg (segment 11)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv108_pa_20_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_006.ogg (segment 12)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv108_pa_20_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_007.ogg (segment 13)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv108_pa_20_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_008.ogg (segment 14)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv108_pa_20_john_maddog_hall_brazilspeech_009.ogg (segment 15)
If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at einfeld@gmail.com. Your work will be credited and posted on this page.
The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt at digitaltippingpoint.com.
Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_108
and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 006, Jon Maddog Hall
You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Thanks for viewing our video!
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