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Lemmings, Think Different and Why Free Software is Important
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<h3 xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
property="cc:attributionName">Monty Taylor</h3>
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href='http://inaugust.com/talks/lemmings.html'>http://inaugust.com/talks/lemmings.html</a> </h4>
<h3> twitter: @e_monty </h3>
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<h1>Mission</h1>
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to produce the ubiquitous Open Source Cloud Computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private clouds regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.
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<h1>Borrowed from Ubuntu</h1>
<p>Time Based Releases</p>
<p>Six Month Cadance</p>
<p>Design summits each cycle</p>
<p>Release codenames in alphabetical order</p>
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<h1>Different from Ubuntu</h1>
<p>No BDFL</p>
<p>All decisions are democratic</p>
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<h1>Naming Process</h1>
Pick a name from names of cities or geographical features near the
summit location
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<h1>Grizzly</h1>
<p class="fragment">San Diego</p>
<p class="fragment">Grizzly bear on the flag</p>
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<h1>Havana</h1>
<p class="fragment">Portland, OR</p>
<p class="fragment">not Cuba</p>
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<h1>Icehouse</h1>
<p class="fragment">Hong Kong</p>
<p class="fragment">Street in HK</p>
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<h1>Juno</h1>
<p class="fragment">Atlanta, GA</p>
<p class="fragment">Town in Georgia</p>
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<h1>Kilo</h1>
<p class="fragment">Paris</p>
<p class="fragment">location of the actual kilogramme</p>
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<h1>The L Word</h1>
<p class="fragment">Vancouver</p>
<p class="fragment">Lemming?</p>
<p class="fragment">Lemming Peak</p>
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<h1>The Marketing Community was not thrilled</h1>
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<h1>Lemmings commit mass suicide by following each other off cliffs</h1>
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<h1>Except they don't</h1>
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<h1>White Wilderness</h1>
<p>1958 Disney Documentary</p>
<p>Staged footage</p>
<p class="fragment">Camera crew forced them off the cliff</p>
<p class="fragment">Won an Oscar, of course</p>
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<h1>Definition of Irony</h1>
<p>The actual meaning is the opposite of the literal meaning</p>
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<h1>Recursive Definition of Irony</h1>
<p>The lemmings metaphor only works because people are lemmings in their adherence to the myth that lemmings are like lemmings.</p>
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<h1>This could never happen to us, right?</h1>
<p class="fragment">MySQL doesn't have transactions</p>
<p class="fragment">MongoDB is Web Scale</p>
<p class="fragment">PHP is insecure</p>
<p class="fragment">Frequent password rotation is secure</p>
<p class="fragment">sysvinit needs to be replaced</p>
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<h1>Results</h1>
<p>We didn't pick Lemming - we picked Liberty</p>
<p class="fragment">Liberty is a town in Saskatchewan</p>
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<h1>Four Freedoms</h1>
<p>0 - to run the program as you wish, for any purpose</p>
<p>1 - to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish</p>
<p>2 - to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor</p>
<p>3 - to distribute copies of your modified version to others</p>
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<h1> GPL is anti-business </h1>
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<h1>Except it isn't</h1>
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<h1>Definition of Eating Crow</h1>
<p>humiliation by admitting wrongness or having been proven wrong after taking a strong position</p>
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<h1>Enjoyable Definition of Eating Crow</h1>
<p>Microsoft purchases Revolution Analytics</p>
<p>R language is GPL</p>
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<h1>Sun/MySQL</h1>
<p>Sun bought MySQL for $1 Billion</p>
<p>Oracle bought Sun</p>
<p>Oracle now develops and ships MySQL under the GPL</p>
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<h1>Linux</h1>
<p class="fragment">anybody here heard of it?</p>
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<h1>Android is the market leading Mobile OS</p>
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<h1>Linux runs:</h1>
<p>Google</p>
<p>Facebook</p>
<p>Twitter</p>
<p class="fragment">They run MySQL too</p>
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<h1>Linux is not just for big companies - it's startup friendly too!</h1>
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<img src="/images/hp-logo.png" />
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<h1>HP ships a Linux server every minute</h1>
<p class="fragment">business unit that does is a $28B business</p>
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<h1>Why is Free Software Important?</h1>
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<p>1984 - Apple's 1984 Super Bowl Commercial</p>
<p class="fragment">1985 - Apple's Lemmings Super Bowl Commercial</p>
<p class="fragment">1997 - Apple's Think Different Campaign</p>
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<p>Don't be a lemming</p>
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<h1>Everybody in this room is wearing a uniform and don't kid yourself</h1>
<p>Frank Zappa</p>
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<h1>"Think Different" isn't about allowing for individualism, it's about defining an alternate tribe</h1>
<p class="fragment">And don't kid yourself, it's about selling product</p>
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<h1>What if you're this poor fellow?</h1>
<img src="/images/worstcat-lettuce.jpg" />
<p class="fragment">http://worstcats.tumblr.com</p>
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<p>How much of your life is computerized?</p>
<p>How many of the four freedoms do you have with each of those things?</p>
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<h1>superfish</p>
<p class="fragment">My laptop did not come with any software pre-installed that is designed to "improve my shopping experience"</p>
<p class="fragment">If it had, I am empowered to remove it</p>
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<p>Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.</p>
<p>David Packard</p>
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<h1>Free Software is a way that I can make the world a better place</h1>
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<h1>Free Software is a way to reconnect with our humanity in a sea of white privilege</h1>
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<h1>Free Software drives an unprecedented amount of innovation</h1>
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<h1>Believe you can change the world</h1>
<p>David Packard</p>
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<h1> Thank you! </h1>
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<h3> twitter: @e_monty </h3>
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