Book description
Freely available source code, with contributions from thousands of programmers around the world: this is the spirit of the software revolution known as Open Source. Open Source has grabbed the computer industry's attention. Netscape has opened the source code to Mozilla; IBM supports Apache; major database vendors haved ported their products to Linux. As enterprises realize the power of the open-source development model, Open Source is becoming a viable mainstream alternative to commercial software.Now in Open Sources, leaders of Open Source come together for the first time to discuss the new vision of the software industry they have created. The essays in this volume offer insight into how the Open Source movement works, why it succeeds, and where it is going.For programmers who have labored on open-source projects, Open Sources is the new gospel: a powerful vision from the movement's spiritual leaders. For businesses integrating open-source software into their enterprise, Open Sources reveals the mysteries of how open development builds better software, and how businesses can leverage freely available software for a competitive business advantage.The contributors here have been the leaders in the open-source arena:
- Brian Behlendorf (Apache)
- Kirk McKusick (Berkeley Unix)
- Tim O'Reilly (Publisher, O'Reilly & Associates)
- Bruce Perens (Debian Project, Open Source Initiative)
- Tom Paquin and Jim Hamerly (mozilla.org, Netscape)
- Eric Raymond (Open Source Initiative)
- Richard Stallman (GNU, Free Software Foundation, Emacs)
- Michael Tiemann (Cygnus Solutions)
- Linus Torvalds (Linux)
- Paul Vixie (Bind)
- Larry Wall (Perl)
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Table of contents
- 1. Acknowledgments
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1. Introduction
- 1.1. Prologue
- 1.2. What Is Free Software and How Does It Relate to Open Source?
- 1.3. What Is Open Source Software?
- 1.4. The Dark Side of the Force
- 1.5. Use the Source, Luke
- 1.6. Innovation Through the Scientific Method
- 1.7. Perils to Open Source
- 1.8. Motivating the Open Source Hacker
- 1.9. The Venture and Investment Future of Linux
- 1.10. Science and the New Renaissance
- 2. A Brief History of Hackerdom
- 3. Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable
- 4. The Internet Engineering Task Force
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5. The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
- 5.1. The First Software-Sharing Community
- 5.2. The Collapse of the Community
- 5.3. A Stark Moral Choice
- 5.4. Free as in Freedom
- 5.5. GNU Software and the GNU System
- 5.6. Commencing the Project
- 5.7. The First Steps
- 5.8. GNU Emacs
- 5.9. Is a Program Free for Every User?
- 5.10. Copyleft and the GNU GPL
- 5.11. The Free Software Foundation
- 5.12. Free Software Support
- 5.13. Technical Goals
- 5.14. Donated Computers
- 5.15. The GNU Task List
- 5.16. The GNU Library GPL
- 5.17. Scratching an Itch?
- 5.18. Unexpected Developments
- 5.19. The GNU HURD
- 5.20. Alix
- 5.21. Linux and GNU/Linux
- 5.22. Challenges in Our Future
- 5.23. “Open Source”
- 5.24. Try!
- 6. Future of Cygnus Solutions: An Entrepreneur’s Account
- 7. Software Engineering
- 8. The Linux Edge
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9. Giving It Away: How Red Hat Software Stumbled Across a New Economic Model and Helped Improve an Industry
- 9.1. Where Did Red Hat Come From?
- 9.2. How Do You Make Money in Free Software?
- 9.3. We Are in the Commodity Product Business
- 9.4. The Strategic Appeal of This Model to the Corporate Computing Industry
- 9.5. Licensing, Open Source, or Free Software
- 9.6. The Economic Engine Behind Development of Open Source Software
- 9.7. Unique Benefits
- 9.8. The Great Unix Flaw
- 9.9. It’s Your Choice
- 10. Diligence, Patience, and Humility
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11. Open Source as a Business Strategy
- 11.1. It’s All About Platforms
- 11.2. Analyzing Your Goals for an Open-Source Project
- 11.3. Evaluating the Market Need for Your Project
- 11.4. Open Source’s Position in the Spectrum of Software
- 11.5. Nature Abhors a Vacuum
- 11.6. Donate, or Go It Alone?
- 11.7. Bootstrapping
- 11.8. What License to Use?
- 11.9. Tools for Launching Open Source Projects
- 12. The Open Source Definition
- 13. Hardware, Software, and Infoware
- 14. Freeing the Source: The Story of Mozilla
- 15. The Revenge of the Hackers
- A. The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate
- B. The Open Source Definition, Version 1.0
- C. Contributors
- About the Authors
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Open Sources
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 1999
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781565925823
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