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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... ................ Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T–Owned to Freely Redistributable ..................................................................... Marshall Kirk McKusick The Internet Engineering Task Force ..............
... Unix on PC hardware. One such company, Coherent, has already foun- dered. The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) has gone from a leading Unix vendor to an afterthought in the span of a couple of years. SCO, the company, will probably find a way ...
... Unix now has a Linux compatibility layer , so that your favorite Linux programs can be run under SCO Unix . The response was underwhelming . Why spend money on an OS just to make it compatible with a competitive free offering ? SCO is ...
... Unix, or floppy disks, as in the early days of DOS, or even on CD-ROM. Any ftp or web server can now serve as a distribution point that is cheap and effectively instanta- neous. While this renaissance holds great promise , we must not ...
... Unix. Meanwhile, however, off in the wilds of New Jersey, something else had been going on since 1969 that would eventually overshadow the PDP-10 tradition. The year of ARPAnet's birth was also the year that a Bell Labs hacker named Ken ...
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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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