September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
187 pages
4h 46m
English
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Chapter 9. Epilogue
InnerSource is an idea that has been long in the main, and it is really gratifying to see it finally gaining widespread momentum.
In 1998, the same year the term “Open Source” was coined, I had just sold my interest in the first company I co-founded, Organic Online. It was the same year that I and the group of volunteer developers known informally as the Apache Group, who built the Apache HTTP Server, began the work of forming a formal nonprofit corporation around our efforts, which led to founding the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) in 1999. But I also needed a new full-time gig, and I believed strongly that the way ASF engineers were using the internet to work together on what became the world’s most popular web server—this “Apache Way” of working (see Chapter 2)—was more efficient, agile, and powerful than any other software engineering process. I felt it was possible to make lightning not just strike twice, but over and over again.
So, I joined up with Tim O’Reilly (of O’Reilly and Associates), a venture capital firm named Benchmark, and a number of other collaborators and friends and started a company named CollabNet, to bring Open Source practices and principles to the rest of the software world. While I was perhaps more motivated to help companies publicly release their code, it became clear that enabling private software collaboration within corporate walls was just as valuable, if not more so. Tim coined the term “InnerSource” for ...
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