Voice From the Open Source Revolution
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.
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 enterprises can leverage freely available software for a competitive business advantage.
For today's programmers, these contributors are their idols: the hackers extraordinaire who have brought us programs like Apache, the world's most popular web server; Linux, the fastest growing OS outside of Redmond; Emacs, the world's best editor; and Perl, the world's most popular scripting language.
For business executives and investors, these contributors are the innovators building a new economic model: Red Hat's president; Cygnus' co-founder; Netscape's vice president of client services; Mozilla.org's manager.
From Eric Raymond to Bruce Perens, from Tim O'Reilly to Richard Stallman, these are the visionaries making the Open Source revolution the cutting edge of the high tech industry. Now, for the first time in print, you can read their analysis of today, and see their vision for tomorrow.
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