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Open sources : voices from the open source revolution / edited by Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman & Mark Stone.

Title
Open sources : voices from the open source revolution / edited by Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman & Mark Stone.
Publication
Beijing ; Cambridge, [Mass.] : O'Reilly, c1999.

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Additional Authors
  • DiBona, Chris
  • Ockman, Sam
  • Stone, Mark
Description
viii, 272 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
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. Now, in Open Sources, for the first time the leaders of Open Source come together 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. - Back cover.
Alternative Title
Opensources
Subject
  • Free computer software
  • Software engineering
  • Hackers
  • Open source software
Genre/Form
Aufsatzsammlung.
Contents
Introduction / Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, and Mark Stone -- A brief history of hackerdom / Eric S. Raymond -- Twenty years of Berkeley Unix : from AT&T-owned to freely redistributable / Marshall Kirk McKusick -- The Internet Engineering Task Force / Scott Bradner -- The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement / Richard Stallman -- The future of Cygnus Solutions : and entrepreneur's account / Michael Tiemann -- Software engineering / Paul Vixie -- Giving it away : how Red Hat Software stumbled across a new economic model and helped improve an industry / Robert Young -- Diligence, patience, and humility / Larry Wall -- Open Source as a business strategy / Brian Behlendorf -- The Open Source definition / Bruce Perens -- Hardware, software, and infoware / Tim O'Reilly -- Freeing the source : the story of Mozilla / Jim Hamerly and Tome Paquin with Susan Walton -- The revenge of the hackers / Eric S. Raymond -- Appendix A : The Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate -- Appendix B : The open source definition, version 1.0.
ISBN
1565925823
OCLC
  • 40889566
  • SCSB-10064887
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library