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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... problems . First , people would consider such a company a freeloader and would recommend a competitor instead . Second , a company must be able to differentiate itself from competitors . Companies like CheapBytes and Linux Central ...
... problem; look, for instance, at the multiple forks that the BSD- based operating systems have taken, leading to NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and many others. What is to keep this from happening to Linux? One thing that keeps this happening ...
... problem with programmers as much as with athletes; many programmers really don't enjoy maintaining a piece of code after having mastered it. Still, other programmers don't take this “macho” view of their craft, and take a more scholarly ...
... problem and encouraged further growth of the Internet. There were several attempts to tame workstation graphics. The one that prevailed was the X Window System. A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to ...
... problems; Math and Statistics wanted to run DEC's RSTS system. After much debate, a compromise was reached in which each department would get an eight-hour shift; Unix would run for eight hours fol- lowed by sixteen hours of RSTS. To ...
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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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