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Christmas time. Play next week in p. D. F. And firefox oh have one thing in common their source code is open meaning everyone can work on the code but recently Major Tech Companies have several big open source projects how will that impact the open source space when it becomes less open our topic today on shifting. Open Source Software is unique in that it lets anyone access and develop its source code they. Source movement emerged as the anti thesis to commercial Software Businesses tech giants tend to keep their proprietary code secret Companies Like microsoft sell expensive user licenses of its patented code the companys founder bill gates even referred to open source projects as a new form of communism now microsoft has shelled out 6500000000 euros for good hap a key open Source Software Development Platform and i. B. M. Recently bought open Source Software developer redhat for a staggering 30000000000 euros making it i. B. M. s biggest takeover ever which impact will this have on the open Source Community or tech idealists giving in to market pressures we asked mikell boom from the Technical University of berlin whos been involved in the open Source Community for 20 years. I think. The commercialization of open Source Software that weve been seeing also with the acquisitions of redhat and get up hasnt really impacted the daily business because you still have free access to the software. Not everyone in the open Source Community is as optimistic as. Open source was designed to be collaborative and centralized but its future looks uncertain for its recently ran a story titled is open source broken after a talk given by good chief operating officer eric. Shes worried by Companies Using open source within their own products i do think that the way that people are consuming and Building Services around open source has changed there are one of the companies that are flourishing with building businesses around open Source Software and there are been some open Source Companies who have come out and said that was a really of their intention when they were building out their business. Its interesting that tech giants like i. B. M. Are now also jumping on the open source bandwagon. According to they are after more than profit. On the one hand the Companies Use open Source Software because they hope this will drive innovation. That allows them to collaborate and use the communitys collective brainpower for finding Software Solutions to stand on the other hand its about being part of a community producing something available to everyone. So its a combination of making more property being more innovative and doing something good. And not only companies have recognized the potential of open Source International organizations like unicef and the United Nations are also looking to work with the open Source Community a move which could mean that less filing. Actually able players will no longer be dependent on private providers. Its particularly striking is that the United Nations have recognized that the real ability to Free Software can help reach this is trainable Development Goals theyre currently Running Technology Innovation Labs in various countries that are developing open Source Software that will become available to all for free so. We can only hope big Tech Companies dont just want to tap the collective now half courters but also plan to give back to the coding community right now open Source Movement is growing independent developers tech giants and multilateral organizations all use open source meaning developers from all over the globe can collaborate on a single project thats nazir for collaboration in this community is kind of spirited and open minded and its truly Cross Cultural youll see people working on code together from countries that are political enemies you can see really great. A case in point the Chinese Commerce giant recently published core codes of its ailing algorithm platform and get. Software developers and data analysts from around the world can now build on this code to develop their own projects. Alibaba uses the a link platform to help with Statistical Analysis Machine Learning and with generating personalized product recommendations one hurdle may be understanding the descriptions as for now these are mainly in chinese. Much of China Cyberspace remains cut off behind a great fire wall so the fact that chinese tech giant ali baba made the algorithms behind its ai platform public is a hugely surprising step one open Source Developers probably dreamed about in the pioneering beginnings. When the computer age was danny software was free choose from then in the 1st companies that sold software for money and slowly programs became proprietary secrets the open Source Movement was a response to this development idealistic coders wanted to reintroduce freely accessible code and to this day open source those key principles its free for everyone to study and use axis develop and distribute. And everyone should contribute something. Among the best known open source projects today are the firefox browser the operating system linux and the online encyclopedia. But open Source Software is not free of license terms it also comes with licenses these specify the conditions under which the software can be used and redistributed and while the software itself isnt usually a charge for optimization and support are in recent years more and more african open Source Developers have stepped onto the scene 1000 year old sampson goddy from nigeria is widely recognized as one of the top open source coders. 2 years ago 19 year old Sampson Garvey from nigeria cofounded open Source Community Africa Africa currently has one of the fan. Growing sectors and the platform helps connect Young African developers and the majority of the between africa. Meets its. 2 different people from different african countries you know ive. Been working with people in you know in south africa in. A site open source is really difficult for me to do it because this is huge over 1000000000 people kind of music right everybody goes by with. Sam he was introduced to open source at the age of 9 when the one Laptop Per Child Initiative gave him a computer running the linux operating system. Today hes a coder and a board member of sugar labs which develops learning tools for children. His career trajectory has served as inspiration for the 1st ever open source festival in lagos nigeria. Really people doing really really. Difficult getting these you know that was one of the one of the the challenges you know. Going to be was thinking about how we need to solve a problem you know not to bring the experience to. Africa. According to the latest get the number of african open source projects has increased by 40 percent in the last year more than anywhere else in the world. One of these projects is run by a Nigerian Team using drones to map parts of lagos more than 1000000000 people worldwide but in places that dont have an official actress which makes it hard or even impossible to locate them sometimes these. People cannot claim state support or get medical treatment and in case of an emergency authorities have no idea how many people are affected let alone where they are. All in lagos this is one of the largest shanty towns in africa. Around 2 thirds of all nigerians live in this type of settlement nobody knows exactly how many people are in morocco latest estimate said the population was around 90000 but cold for africas lead technologist david limine thinks its home to many more his organization is working on creating the 1st ever map of moscow. Exists as a essentially a block or google maps its 3 dots but in reality its actually an entire community their water with you could be able to see. Code for africa teamed up with the world bank to put macaco on the map. A team of women learn to pilot drones and now use them to map the neighborhood analyzing areas of 3 square kilometers each. By doing so they are getting a highly detailed picture of the area. The data is then evaluated by data analysts and shared into the free open street map program. A team on the ground provides additional info about the various buildings. Would really be able to have enough funds to do this collection of data if it was an open source i dont think so because its really on the front theres an entire community of courses that allows us to be able to repopulate this kind of information. This you know how can be passed on and used to improve the neighborhood. Can help for example get a much better idea of how many people live in macaco. Which is key for creating a local infrastructure. Open source code has Great Potential thats why good how coders want to make sure it is preserved and accessible for future generations open Source Developers plan to archive the codes in a defunct coal mine and its back in the arctic for at least 1000 years well judging from that promo clip they seem confident to be writing history and according to me its this confidence which drives them people who are most of those involved are motivated by 2 things they want to do something they enjoy that they find interesting and they like the feeling that everything they produce helps make the world a better place for this and its this combination that drives many of those i know in this field if you do these can be indeed but i see sure do you use wikipedia or firefox both are open source projects i do use them and if you ask me open source is an incredible accomplishment in the worlds 500 fast the Super Computers run on a free operating system namely linux what does the future look like now that tech giants are buying important open source projects what do you think let us know on you tube or facebook i buy and see you soon. 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