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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... share, but that “edge” looks puny in the overall server market where Microsoft's 20% is dwarfed by Apache's 53%. The irony deepens, however. The fact is that 29% of the Web now runs on Linux- based servers, according the surveys ...
... share their inventions for all to benefit from. A scientist isn't supposed to let profits come at the expense of the pursuit of knowledge. What all these introspections on programming have in common is an emphasis on reputation ...
... share of the commercial market. In Silicon Valley, hopeful applications vendors looking for backing from the angel and venture capital community learn very quickly that if they position themselves against Microsoft, they will not get ...
... share their work with Berkeley was instrumental in the rapid improvement of the software available at Berkeley . Though Unix was soon reliably up and running, the coalition TWENTY YEARS OF BERKELEY UNIX 31 Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix ...
... share their software because of the diversity of hardware and operat- ing systems . Choosing a single hardware vendor was impractical because of the widely varying computing needs of the research groups and the undesirability of ...
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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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