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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... selling convenience, as most do not want to have to bother with downloading all the pieces that make up a full-featured Linux system. But he is not the only one doing this. So why does Red Hat dominate the U.S. mar- ket? Why does SuSE ...
... selling CDs for as little as a dol- lar . For Red Hat to be perceived as offering greater value than these budget distribu- tors , Red Hat must give something back . In a wonderful irony of the Open Source model , Red Hat can afford to ...
... selling more IBM hardware . IBM is taking this to the next step and is 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 ...
... sell a proprietary Unix on PC hardware. One such company, Coherent, has already foun- dered. The Santa Cruz ... selling the SCO Unix operating system, programs like compilers and servers, and training and education on the use of the SCO ...
... sell it to the development community as a replacement for the original Emacs, written by Richard Stallman. Lucid's alternative was called Lucid Emacs and then Xemacs. When the Lucid team went to pitch the Xemacs solution to various ...
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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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