Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution"O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 1999. gada 3. janv. - 284 lappuses 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:
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... port- ing their popular DB2 database to the Linux operating system . While many took this as being a response to Oracle releasing its Oracle 8 line on Linux , IBM has taken its role in the community seriously and has dedicated resources ...
... port of Linux, or through supporting development of John Ousterhout's Tcl scripting language. It's ironic, then, that the company that grew out of the joyous free software roots at Berkeley that Kirk McKusick describes so often ...
... port to other operating systems. The biggest arena that Microsoft has yet to dominate—the Internet—has no such restriction. As Scott Bradner describes, the Internet is built on a powerful collection of open standards maintained on the ...
... ports for PC - class machines . Success was elusive , prices didn't come down much , and ( worst of all ) you didn't get modifiable and redistributable sources with your operating system . The traditional software - business model wasn ...
... port- ability got lost in bickering among half a dozen proprietary Unix versions. The pro- prietary-Unix players ... ports would become the most impor- tant free Unixes on the PC. The most important feature of Linux, however, was not ...
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An Entrepreneurs Account | 71 |
Software Engineering | 91 |
The Linux Edge | 101 |
Open Source as a Business Strategy | 149 |
The Open Source Definition | 171 |
Hardware Software and Infoware | 189 |
The Story of Mozilla | 197 |
The Revenge of the Hackers | 207 |
The TanenbaumTorvalds Debate | 221 |
The Open Source Definition Version 10 | 253 |
Contributors | 265 |
How Red Hat Software Stumbled Across a New Economic Model and Helped Improve an Industry | 113 |
Diligence Patience and Humility | 127 |
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