LinuxCon Japan is the premiere Linux conference in Asia that brings together a unique blend of core developers, administrators, users, community managers and industry experts.
CloudOpen Japan is a conference celebrating and exploring the open source projects, technologies and companies who make up the cloud. It’s built on a belief that open works: for users, for industry and for technology.
The presentation analyzes how OSS effects Japanese IT companiesâ business growth both through simple use and by deeper engagement as stakeholders in OSS communities. The methodology we employ in this study is to investigate the effect on the business growth by OSS utilization and contribution in Japanese IT companies. âThe more IT companies contribute to OSS communities, the more they are able to acquire economic effectâ. According to this methodology, we sent out a detailed questionnaire survey to IT companies in Japan, during 2012, and analyzed it statistically. This is the first time that such a link between the utilization of OSS and economic growth has been explored in the context of Japan, and it can hopefully lay a foundation for further study regarding the real economic value of this approach to software.
This talk will explore developments in Open Source governance around the world over the last twelve months with a particular focus on the outcomes of recent events, meetings and discussions held in Europe, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. It will explain how Open Source is being managed in server, desktop, mobile and embedded products, and discusses how this knowledge will prove useful for future products in the automative market. It will put emphasis on how governance is broader than technical or legal concerns, and includes issues of business strategy.
This talk is intended for project leaders, legal experts and managers who want to understand copyright, trademark and patent challenges in the context of the commercial market. It will be delivered in accessible language by one of the most experienced figures in this area, based on his work supporting Linux and wider OSS technologies.
Software is becoming more and more integrated into our lives and our society. It's become what we rely on to communicate with each other and also how we accomplish a large portion of our basic activities. Free and open source software is better, safer, often cheaper and always the right thing to do. But is there a difference based on how that software is created?
This talk will discuss the implications of our software being created by one company and 'thrown over the wall' versus a vibrant community effort and combinations of the two.
