Publisher: O'Reilly Media Released: January 1999 Pages: 288
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. Open Source has grabbed the computer industry's attention. Netscape has opened the source code to Mozilla; IBM supports Apache; major database vendors haved ported their products to Linux. As enterprises realize the power of the open-source development model, Open Source is becoming a viable mainstream alternative to commercial software. Now in Open Sources, leaders of Open Source come together for the first time 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 businesses can leverage freely available software for a competitive business advantage. The contributors here have been the leaders in the open-source arena: - Brian Behlendorf (Apache)
- Kirk McKusick (Berkeley Unix)
- Tim O'Reilly (Publisher, O'Reilly & Associates)
- Bruce Perens (Debian Project, Open Source Initiative)
- Tom Paquin and Jim Hamerly (mozilla.org, Netscape)
- Eric Raymond (Open Source Initiative)
- Richard Stallman (GNU, Free Software Foundation, Emacs)
- Michael Tiemann (Cygnus Solutions)
- Linus Torvalds (Linux)
- Paul Vixie (Bind)
- Larry Wall (Perl)
This book explains why the majority of the Internet's servers use open- source technologies for everything from the operating system to Web serving and email. Key technology products developed with open-source software have overtaken and surpassed the commercial efforts of billion dollar companies like Microsoft and IBM to dominate software markets. Learn the inside story of what led Netscape to decide to release its source code using the open-source mode. Learn how Cygnus Solutions builds the world's best compilers by sharing the source code. Learn why venture capitalists are eagerly watching Red Hat Software, a company that gives its key product -- Linux -- away. For the first time in print, this book presents the story of the open- source phenomenon told by the people who created this movement. Open Sources will bring you into the world of free software and show you the revolution. |
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Chapter 1 Acknowledgments -
Chapter 1 Introduction -
Prologue -
What Is Free Software and How Does It Relate to Open Source? -
What Is Open Source Software? -
The Dark Side of the Force -
Use the Source, Luke -
Innovation Through the Scientific Method -
Perils to Open Source -
Motivating the Open Source Hacker -
The Venture and Investment Future of Linux -
Science and the New Renaissance -
Chapter 2 A Brief History of Hackerdom -
Prologue: The Real Programmers -
The Early Hackers -
The Rise of Unix -
The End of Elder Days -
The Proprietary Unix Era -
The Early Free Unixes -
The Great Web Explosion -
Chapter 3 Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable -
Early History -
Early Distributions -
VAX Unix -
DARPA Support -
4.2BSD -
4.3BSD -
Networking, Release 1 -
4.3BSD-Reno -
Networking, Release 2 -
The Lawsuit -
4.4BSD -
4.4BSD-Lite, Release 2 -
Chapter 4 The Internet Engineering Task Force -
The History of the IETF -
IETF Structure and Features -
IETF Working Groups -
IETF Documents -
The IETF Process -
Open Standards, Open Documents, and Open Source -
Chapter 5 The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement -
The First Software-Sharing Community -
The Collapse of the Community -
A Stark Moral Choice -
Free as in Freedom -
GNU Software and the GNU System -
Commencing the Project -
The First Steps -
GNU Emacs -
Is a Program Free for Every User? -
Copyleft and the GNU GPL -
The Free Software Foundation -
Free Software Support -
Technical Goals -
Donated Computers -
The GNU Task List -
The GNU Library GPL -
Scratching an Itch? -
Unexpected Developments -
The GNU HURD -
Alix -
Linux and GNU/Linux -
Challenges in Our Future -
"Open Source" -
Try! -
Chapter 6 Future of Cygnus Solutions: An Entrepreneur's Account -
Cygnus in the Early Years -
GNUPro -
Challenges -
Getting Funded Beyond Open Source—eCos -
Reflections and Vision of the Future -
Chapter 7 Software Engineering -
The Software Engineering Process -
Testing Details -
Open Source Software Engineering -
Conclusions -
Chapter 8 The Linux Edge -
Amiga and the Motorola Port -
Microkernels -
From Alpha to Portability -
Kernel Space and User Space -
GCC -
Kernel Modules -
Portability Today -
The Future of Linux -
Chapter 9 Giving It Away: How Red Hat Software Stumbled Across a New Economic Model and Helped Improve an Industry -
Where Did Red Hat Come From? -
How Do You Make Money in Free Software? -
We Are in the Commodity Product Business -
The Strategic Appeal of This Model to the Corporate Computing Industry -
Licensing, Open Source, or Free Software -
The Economic Engine Behind Development of Open Source Software -
Unique Benefits -
The Great Unix Flaw -
It's Your Choice -
Chapter 10 Diligence, Patience, and Humility -
Chapter 11 Open Source as a Business Strategy -
It's All About Platforms -
Analyzing Your Goals for an Open-Source Project -
Evaluating the Market Need for Your Project -
Open Source's Position in the Spectrum of Software -
Nature Abhors a Vacuum -
Donate, or Go It Alone? -
Bootstrapping -
What License to Use? -
Tools for Launching Open Source Projects -
Chapter 12 The Open Source Definition -
History -
KDE, Qt, and Troll Tech -
Analysis of the Open Source Definition -
Analysis of Licenses and Their Open Source Compliance -
Choosing a License -
The Future -
Chapter 13 Hardware, Software, and Infoware -
Chapter 14 Freeing the Source: The Story of Mozilla -
Making It Happen -
Creating the License -
Mozilla.org -
Behind the Curtain -
April Fool's Day, 1998 -
Chapter 15 The Revenge of the Hackers -
Beyond Brooks's Law -
Memes and Mythmaking -
The Road to Mountain View -
The Origins of "Open Source" -
The Accidental Revolutionary -
Phases of the Campaign -
The Facts on the Ground -
Into the Future -
Appendix A The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate -
Appendix B The Open Source Definition, Version 1.0 -
GNU General Public License -
Appendix C Contributors |
- Title:
- Open Sources
- By:
- Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
- Formats:
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- Print
- Ebook
- Safari Books Online
- Print:
- January 1999
- Ebook:
- July 2008
- Pages:
- 288
- Print ISBN:
- 978-1-56592-582-3
- | ISBN 10:
- 1-56592-582-3
- Ebook ISBN:
- 978-0-596-15301-4
- | ISBN 10:
- 0-596-15301-5
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Chris DiBona Chris DiBona is the cofounder of both Konstrux Technologies, which implements gforge for companies, and her sister company, Damage Studios. He also co-edited the O'Reilly book Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Software Revolution and was an editor at Slashdot.org for some time, where he also ran the polls and can be found on TechTV where he does Linux segments for The ScreenSavers. View Chris DiBona's full profile page. |
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