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 12 video segments features John Koenig, a software consultant and lawyer. John's video is useful for an overview of how people make money with Free Open Source Software (FOSS). In 2008, we now know how people make money with Free Open Source Software, but remember that this was shot in 2004, so it is useful both as a summary and as an historical perspective.

In segment 11 (Tape 146~002-003), John says that Linux is being used in real-time production like robots. John then switches topics and talks about Tim O'Reilly's paradigm shift, which John says features software will increasingly delivered as a service. Google is an example. Amazon is another example, in which book readers create book reviews. He then switches topics again, and says that Free Open Source Software (FOSS) will be adopted in three phases. The first phase is the use of FOSS over the Internet, as in the case of the Apache web server. He says that Apache already passed the tipping point, as it constitutes 70% of the global web servers. The next phase is Linux in data centers. The last phase is the desktop, and we haven't started running up the curve there yet. He says that in three years (by 2007) there will be a tipping point on the desktop, where more and more people will feel comfortable using FOSS on the desktop (in 2008, we can see we are still not quite there yet). He says that the Apache tipping point was passed in 2000. Many companies deployed applications in 1999, 2000, and 2001. The second wave of adoption started in this year, 2004, on the data center. John's thought on this point continues on segment 12

In segment 12 (Tape 146~004), John says that he thinks that we will start to see the tipping point on the desktop in about 2006 (again, that didn't exactly happen, as we know now in 2008, at least not in North America, although maybe it did happen in places like Extremadura, Spain). He defines the tipping point as a product that becomes mainstream and more widely adopted and more widely supported by other vendors and a whole ecosystem developes around it.

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 links for John Koenig's interview segments are here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv145_sf_01_john_koenig_riseforth_linux_consulting_001.ogg (segment 01)

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv145_sf_01_john_koenig_riseforth_linux_consulting_002.ogg (segment 02)

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv145_sf_01_john_koenig_riseforth_linux_consulting_003.ogg (segment 03)

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv145_sf_01_john_koenig_riseforth_linux_consulting_004.ogg (segment 04)

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv145_sf_01_john_koenig_riseforth_linux_consulting_005.ogg (segment 05)

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv145_sf_01_john_koenig_riseforth_linux_consulting_006.ogg (segment 06)

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv145_sf_01_john_koenig_riseforth_linux_consulting_007.ogg (segment 07)

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv145_sf_01_john_koenig_riseforth_linux_consulting_008.ogg (segment 08)

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv145_sf_01_john_koenig_riseforth_linux_consulting_009.ogg (segment 09)

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv146_sf_02_john_koenig_riseforth_linux_consulting_001.ogg (segment 10)

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv146_sf_02_john_koenig_riseforth_linux_consulting_002_003.ogg (segment 11)

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv146_sf_02_john_koenig_riseforth_linux_consulting_004.ogg (segment 12)

If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt@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@gmail.com.

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