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02/15/2006, 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker:
Arnoud Engelfriet, Secretary, Open Source Advisory Board; European Patent Attorney, Philips Electronics.
Philips Electronics has used combinations of open source and closed, proprietary software for several years. This presents various challenges, such as how to safely combine the two, how to handle open source distribution requirements, and other things.
Engelfriet will use Philips' ABISS hard-disk scheduler (http://abiss.sourceforge.net/), which Philips contributed to the Linux kernel, as a case study to show best practices for managing mixed-IP product development. For various reasons, Philips wanted to keep certain parts of ABISS closed, and so the company developed a methodology to evaluate where this would be most appropriate and how this would be possible.
As Secretary of Philips' Open Source Advisory Board, Engelfriet coordinates the legal clearance of the use of open source software by Philips. In 2002, he drafted and implemented the Philips policies on open source. This session will be an interesting and productive view into how a major electronics company manages the mixed use of open and closed source software.
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