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
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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