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Open Sources 2.0 : the Continuing Evolution

Open Sources 2.0 is a collection of insightful and thought-provoking essays from today's technology leaders that continues painting the evolutionary picture that developed in the 1999 book Open Sources: Voices from the Revolution . These essays explore open source's impact on the software industry and reveal how open source concepts are infiltrating other areas of commerce and society. The essays appeal to a broad audience: the software developer will find thoughtful reflections on practices and methodology from leading open source developers like Jeremy Allison and Ben Laurie, while the busin
eBook, English, 2008
O'Reilly Media, Inc., Sebastopol, 2008
1 online resource (496 pages)
9780596553890, 0596553897
609840696
Open Sources 2.0; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction; I. Open Source: Competition and Evolution; 1.1.2. A Disciplined Methodology; 1.1.3. Building an Open Source Project; 1.2. Young Adulthoodthe Mozilla Foundation; 1.3. The Future; 2. Open Source and Proprietary Software Development; 2.1.1.2. Speed of development; 2.1.1.3. A particularly difficult codebase; 2.2. Comfort; 2.2.2. Libraries, System Calls, and Widgets; 2.3. Distributed Development; 2.3.1.2. Subversion; 2.3.1.3. What About SourceSafe?; 2.3.1.4. The Special Case of BitKeeper; 2.4. Collaborative Development. 2.4.2. VoIP2.4.3. SourceForge; 2.5. Software Distribution; 2.5.2. Online Updating/Installation; 2.6. How Proprietary Software Development Has Changed Open Source; 2.6.2. Testing and QA; 2.6.3. Project Scaling; 2.6.4. Control; 2.6.5. Intellectual Property; 2.7. Some Final Words; 3. A Tale of Two Standards; 3.2. First Implementation Past the Post; 3.3. Future Proofing; 3.4. Wither POSIX?; 3.5. The Win32 (Windows) Standard; 3.6. The Tar