Donald Lobo: What is open source and why the hell should I care about it?
Archive: Writing this program in BASIC is your next assignment.
Steve Jobs: If you look at the technological revolution that we’re all in, it’s a process of taking very centralized things and making them very democratic, if you will. Software CEOs. Could I please ask you to introduce yourselves?
Bill Gates: My name is Bill Gates. I’m chairman of Microsoft.
Archive: This is the rarest of birds. A game you can load on your hard disc because it’s not copy protected.
Archive anti-piracy advert: Piracy fund terrorism. Don’t touch the hot stuff.
Chris Anderson: This Is the Linux World headquarters.
Linus Torvalds: Um, yeah,
Chris Anderson: So your software, Linux powers much of the internet. There are billions of active Android devices out there. Your software is in every single one of them.
News-reader:Jenny, You have said that this is a transformational deal, that this is something that is a game changer for IBM.
Satya Nadella: We are all in on open source, and that’s what really brings us together with GitHub.
Clay Shirky: A momentous thing that can happen to a culture is they can acquire a new style of arguing trial by jury, voting, peer review. Now this, a programmer in Edinburgh and a programmer in Tebet can both get the same, a copy of the same piece of software. Each of them can make changes and they can merge them after the fact, even if they didn’t know of each other’s existence beforehand. This is cooperation without coordination. This is the big change,
Archive clips: And our goal was to create an open source ventilator. It started a week ago and already we’ve organized a thousand different volunteers, engineers, designers, medical professionals, So the face masks are an open source design. We had the facilities producing these on a large scale, so we searched online to find the existing designs
Clay Shirky: Out of this community, but using these tools, they can now create something together. It’s large, it’s distributed, it’s low cost, and it’s compatible with the ideals of democracy. The question for us now is, are we gonna let the programmers keep it to themselves, or are we gonna try and take it and press it into service for society at large?
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