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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 Alliso
eBook, English, 2005
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O'Reilly, Beijing, 2005
1 online resource (496 p.)
9781306815963, 9780596515553, 9780596553890, 1306815967, 0596515553, 0596553897
1300700666
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 Adulthood-the 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 Pit: Backward Compatibility; 3.7. World Domination, Fast; 3.8. Wither Win32?; 3.9. Choosing a Standard; 4. Open Source and Security 4.2. Open Versus Closed Source4.2.2. Time to Fix; 4.2.3. Visibility of Bugs and Changes; 4.2.4. Review; 4.2.5. Who&s the Boss?; 4.3. Digression: Threat Models; 4.4. The Future; 4.5. Interesting Projects; 4.6. Conclusion; 5. Dual Licensing; 5.2. Open Source: Distribution Versus Development; 5.3. A Primer on Intellectual Property; 5.3.2. Licensing; 5.4. Dual Licensing; 5.4.2. Warranty; 5.4.3. Competitive Issues; 5.4.4. Ownership; 5.5. Practical Considerations; 5.5.2. Capital; 5.5.3. Choosing Licenses; 5.5.4. Need and Pain; 5.5.5. Measuring the Market; 5.5.6. Piracy; 5.5.7. The Social Contract 5.6. Trends and the Future5.7. Global Development; 5.8. Open Models; 5.9. The Future of Software; 6. Open Source and the Commoditization of Software; 6.2. Decommoditization: The Failure of Open Systems; 6.3. Linux: A Response from the Trenches; 6.4. ""So, How Do You Make Money from Free Software?""; 6.5. The First Business Models for Linux; 6.6. Linux Commercialization at a Crossroads; 6.7. Proprietary Linux?; 6.8. What&s at Stake?; 7. Open Source and the Commodity Urge: Disruptive Models for a Disruptive Development Process; 7.2. A Brief History of Software 7.3. A New Brand of Intellectual Property Protection7.4. Open Distribution, Not Source; 7.4.2. Proliferating Open Source Beyond the Enterprise; 7.4.3. So, Why Not Freeware?; 7.4.3.2. Open source. Open choice. Open wallet.; 7.5. Open Source Business Models; 7.5.2. Professional Open Source (a.k.a. Services) Model; 7.5.3. Dual-License Model; 7.5.4. ASP Model; 7.5.5. Other Models; 7.5.5.2. Code-level service model; 7.6. Conclusion; 8. Under the Hood: Open Source and Open Standards Business Models in Context; 8.2. Open Source Software; 8.3. The Real Business Model; 8.4. Open Source Complements
8.5. Open Standards Complements
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