WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:08.000 All right, thank you everyone for being here. 00:08.000 --> 00:12.000 I'm going to present today on software licensing for a circular economy. 00:12.000 --> 00:14.000 It's maybe a little bit different than the other talks. 00:14.000 --> 00:18.000 I'm going to focus today on desktop and laptop software. 00:18.000 --> 00:20.000 That's what KD excels at. 00:20.000 --> 00:24.000 But the principles I'm going to talk about are relevant for any software dependent hardware. 00:24.000 --> 00:29.000 The slides, there are many links to them. 00:29.000 --> 00:33.000 If you want to scan the QR code, go to our repository and download them. 00:33.000 --> 00:35.000 You're welcome to, I'll try to come back to this at the end of the talk. 00:35.000 --> 00:37.000 Can everyone hear me okay in the back? 00:37.000 --> 00:39.000 Yeah, great. 00:39.000 --> 00:41.000 Okay, we're going to do a little bit of a game at first. 00:41.000 --> 00:43.000 You're going to do a fill in the blank. 00:43.000 --> 00:45.000 So who here can fill in the blank? 00:45.000 --> 00:47.000 You can just yell it out when I get to it. 00:47.000 --> 00:49.000 Free software, free society. 00:49.000 --> 00:53.000 So how do you get from one domain to the other? 00:53.000 --> 00:57.000 And the way you do that is because what's inherent to a free software license, 00:57.000 --> 01:04.000 the user autonomy, and transparency, is how the argument goes from one to the other. 01:04.000 --> 01:08.000 And I'm going to argue today that those same qualities, 01:08.000 --> 01:15.000 the user autonomy and transparency are how you go from free software to three society or three R society. 01:15.000 --> 01:17.000 Who knows what the three R are? 01:17.000 --> 01:19.000 Can you yell it out? 01:19.000 --> 01:21.000 Reduce, reuse, and recycle. 01:21.000 --> 01:25.000 Okay, that's going to be the main thing that I'm going to talk about today. 01:25.000 --> 01:28.000 And I'm going to put it into the context of the linear economy. 01:28.000 --> 01:31.000 So here we have a graph of a produce, 01:31.000 --> 01:36.000 where you have the input production distribution, use, and then dispose phase. 01:36.000 --> 01:41.000 And when we talk about today's how free software can interrupt that linear economy. 01:41.000 --> 01:43.000 Okay, but first, what is the problem? 01:43.000 --> 01:45.000 Right, we're in a climate crisis. 01:45.000 --> 01:47.000 This is not fine. 01:47.000 --> 01:51.000 So if that comic that probably most of you know, or the dog is sitting in a burning room, 01:51.000 --> 01:55.000 if you were to play that out, this is an updated version from the same artist. 01:55.000 --> 01:57.000 Play that out over a little bit more time. 01:57.000 --> 02:00.000 You might get to the point where the dog is yelling, 02:00.000 --> 02:03.000 there's no reason to let it last this long and get this bad. 02:03.000 --> 02:04.000 We are in that situation now. 02:04.000 --> 02:10.000 We have known about the effect that greenhouse gas emissions have on the environment for over 150 years. 02:10.000 --> 02:14.000 We have predicted that this is going to happen, and we are now in that situation. 02:14.000 --> 02:17.000 So this is not fine, and we have to do something about it. 02:17.000 --> 02:19.000 What does it have to do with ICT? 02:19.000 --> 02:25.000 Well, in the ICT sector, we're consuming about 8% to 9% of the total energy. 02:25.000 --> 02:28.000 This is from 2019, so today it's certainly a bit higher. 02:28.000 --> 02:31.000 And the half of it comes from manufacturing alone. 02:31.000 --> 02:32.000 Okay? 02:32.000 --> 02:38.000 So I'm going to focus on that aspect in the talk, in the interface between software and hardware. 02:38.000 --> 02:44.000 The carbon footprint by device is disproportionate to the usage. 02:44.000 --> 02:51.000 You can see here for the orange parts of the barplots that production alone accounts for 75 plus, 02:51.000 --> 02:58.000 in some case, almost 100% of the carbon emissions over that device's lifespan. 02:58.000 --> 02:59.000 Okay? 02:59.000 --> 03:02.000 So one of the first things is reduce, so longer use. 03:02.000 --> 03:07.000 So how can we interrupt the disposal stage by using our hardware for longer? 03:07.000 --> 03:12.000 Well, part of that is having efficient software, so that we can use the hardware for longer. 03:12.000 --> 03:13.000 Right? 03:13.000 --> 03:16.000 This is a comparison from the Umbal Blindersomp, the German Environment Agency, 03:16.000 --> 03:19.000 comparing the energy consumption of two work processors. 03:19.000 --> 03:21.000 Only identified as open source and proprietary. 03:21.000 --> 03:25.000 You can probably guess which software products as are. 03:25.000 --> 03:29.000 And you can see here that to do the exact same thing, one of the software products, 03:29.000 --> 03:31.000 the proprietary one, consume four times the energy. 03:31.000 --> 03:32.000 Okay? 03:32.000 --> 03:35.000 When you multiply that out over millions of billions of devices, 03:35.000 --> 03:38.000 you're talking about a lot of energy consumption. 03:38.000 --> 03:43.000 The integration of anti-features, like ads, 03:43.000 --> 03:46.000 also are consuming energy on your device. 03:46.000 --> 03:49.000 If users don't want it, they have no option to opt out. 03:49.000 --> 03:52.000 If it's proprietary software, if it's free and open source software, 03:52.000 --> 03:57.000 user autonomy and transparency allow us to make changes to make the software better 03:57.000 --> 04:00.000 to be more efficient and to let us use that hardware for longer. 04:00.000 --> 04:03.000 This is an example from KDE, we are now tracking our efficiency, 04:03.000 --> 04:08.000 merge requests to get an idea of what we're doing to make our software more efficient. 04:08.000 --> 04:12.000 All right, the next stage, reuse. 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 Here are just a couple of examples. 04:14.000 --> 04:17.000 This is from a campaign that you're all welcome to join. 04:17.000 --> 04:19.000 We have a buff this afternoon at three. 04:19.000 --> 04:24.000 The end of 10 campaign, Windows 10, has its end of life on the 14th of October, 04:24.000 --> 04:25.000 this year. 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 14th of October is also International E-Waste Day. 04:27.000 --> 04:28.000 I'm not kidding. 04:28.000 --> 04:31.000 And it's also KDE's 29th birthday. 04:31.000 --> 04:36.000 And we're trying to organize a global campaign to raise awareness about the role that software plays 04:36.000 --> 04:37.000 in hardware longevity. 04:37.000 --> 04:41.000 This is an example of from our website, mock up of an old computer, 04:41.000 --> 04:45.000 which you can upcycle, which is still good, still usable. 04:45.000 --> 04:49.000 In many cases, in particular with Windows 10, we're talking about maybe five or six years old. 04:49.000 --> 04:51.000 These are not old devices. 04:51.000 --> 04:57.000 They will become E-Waste if the software doesn't get updated or upcycled. 04:57.000 --> 05:03.000 And you can put a free notebook software on it and use that device to the end of the hardware life cycle, 05:03.000 --> 05:05.000 not the software life cycle. 05:05.000 --> 05:08.000 You can repurpose devices, just an example I found on the internet. 05:08.000 --> 05:12.000 This car thing device from Spotify was discontinued. 05:12.000 --> 05:17.000 Luckily, they opened source the firmware so that people could then take it and make new things out of it. 05:17.000 --> 05:20.000 This is now become a desk thing. 05:20.000 --> 05:25.000 And this is possible because the user autonomy and transparency allow then users. 05:25.000 --> 05:32.000 Yeah, software engineers to then take that device, put new software on it and keep it running. 05:32.000 --> 05:34.000 Here's an example from recycling. 05:34.000 --> 05:37.000 I'm going to talk about it in terms of software recycling. 05:37.000 --> 05:43.000 The SAI Linux group is doing some really amazing work, reverse engineering and series chips from Apple. 05:43.000 --> 05:48.000 The work that they're doing is very focused on that specific thing. 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 They can take what they're doing. 05:50.000 --> 05:52.000 Take the software that already exists. 05:52.000 --> 05:57.000 In this case, we're very proud in KDE that they are interested in our desktop environment. 05:57.000 --> 06:05.000 Integrate and recycle software that already exists into the software that they are developing and give you a complete functioning operating system. 06:05.000 --> 06:12.000 This is possible, again, user autonomy transparency makes that a possibility if this is proprietary software that's impossible. 06:12.000 --> 06:17.000 So to go back to the three stages, reduce your user cycle. 06:17.000 --> 06:21.000 In proprietary software, you have a vendor dependency at each of those stages. 06:21.000 --> 06:28.000 With free and open source software, you can interrupt the linear model at the disposal stage and reduce reuse and recycle. 06:28.000 --> 06:32.000 If you're interested in what we're doing in KDE, you're welcome to get involved. 06:32.000 --> 06:39.000 The KDE initiative is under the KDE umbrella, but we are an inclusive initiative because this issue is not just about KDE. 06:39.000 --> 06:42.000 It's about all of us, really all of us. 06:42.000 --> 06:47.000 So anyone who's working on software sustainability, please get involved. 06:47.000 --> 06:49.000 We would love to have you join us. 06:49.000 --> 06:57.000 Later today at 3 o'clock, we have a buff to coordinate a Windows 10 to Linux up cycling campaign across free software communities worldwide. 06:57.000 --> 06:59.000 It's here in this building at 3242. 06:59.000 --> 07:02.000 You can also pick up some pamphlets. 07:02.000 --> 07:13.000 It's an environmentally friendly software about this issue for end users to be informed about the world software plays in energy consumption and hardware longevity. 07:13.000 --> 07:17.000 So thank you if you have questions, I think we have another couple minutes. 07:17.000 --> 07:18.000 Great. 07:18.000 --> 07:30.000 Thank you. 07:30.000 --> 07:33.000 I was wondering if there's any way to put pressure on vendors. 07:33.000 --> 07:41.000 So one of the issues I was reviewing security for a client behind a group taking out service going and on desktop. 07:41.000 --> 07:56.000 And one of the issues was that they intelligence don't produce any updated microchrype and security vulnerabilities for Sky� CPUs, for instance. 07:56.000 --> 08:03.000 And even though almost identical CPUs are still supported, they drop their whole range. 08:03.000 --> 08:07.000 And they think they can say microchrype is still supported. 08:07.000 --> 08:13.000 So as new security vulnerabilities have found, things like the spectrum and meltdown. 08:13.000 --> 08:16.000 So you can't get any patches. 08:16.000 --> 08:22.000 Again microchrype fixes and third way is also related to it here as well. 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 But a bit more practical. 08:24.000 --> 08:28.000 So I don't know if we can put pressure, perhaps in a regulatory sense. 08:28.000 --> 08:32.000 I have talked to a couple of lawyers at like breakfast about the idea of. 08:32.000 --> 08:38.000 So I think it should be illegal, for example, the iPhone bootloaders are locked down when they stop supporting the device. 08:38.000 --> 08:42.000 Because that hardware is still good and it's being turned into e-waste. 08:42.000 --> 08:53.000 To see if there's perhaps some sustainability legislation that could be used to leverage and argue that this should be illegal and perhaps there are other cases where. 08:53.000 --> 08:57.000 Yeah, you can make the argument, but I don't know of anything that actually came out of that. 08:57.000 --> 09:01.000 Those are just having some coffee and chatting about these topics. 09:01.000 --> 09:07.000 But if I think we should like as a community push for these kinds of legislation. 09:07.000 --> 09:13.000 Yeah, we're in a crisis and there's no reason that these devices should be thrown away. 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 Any other questions? 09:15.000 --> 09:18.000 You're welcome to talk with me at some point during the day. 09:18.000 --> 09:20.000 And thank you very much. 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 Thank you.