Business Success with Open Source

Who Should Read This Book?

We’ll prevaricate and say otherwise in public, but if you corner most authors, you can get them to admit that they’d like everyone to read their book. They’d like you to give it as presents at baby showers and graduations, as rewards for accomplishments big and small, and as thinking-of-you gifts to long-lost friends and lovers. That it may be a textbook about orbital dynamics doesn’t matter; the more eyes on the work, the happier the author. However, when we return from dreamland into the real world, we sadly confess that, no, not everyone will get value out of our work. This book, alas, is no different.

Since that value is the most important thing here, the question of who should read this book is less relevant than ...