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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Why we wrote this book | |
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| Who should read this book? | |
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| How this book is organized | |
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| Visit us online | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Overview of Open Source Software | |
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| What is software source code? | |
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| The Open Source Definition | |
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| Examples of OSD-compliant licenses | |
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| Examples of Open Source Software products | |
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| The Open Source Software Development process | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| A history of Open Source Software | |
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| The early days | |
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| The Berkeley Software Distribution | |
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| T[superscript e]X | |
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| The Free Software Foundation | |
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| Linux | |
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| Apache | |
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| Mozilla | |
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| Open Source Software | |
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| Conclusion and further reading | |
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| The landscape of Open Source Software | |
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| Advocacy groups--FSF and OSI | |
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| Project coordinators and hosts | |
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| OSS companies | |
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| Related organizations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Deriving a framework for analyzing OSS | |
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| Zachman's framework for IS architecture | |
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| CATWOE and Soft Systems Method | |
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| Deriving an analytical framework for OSS | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Qualification: what defines a software system as Open Source? | |
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| Defining Open Source Software | |
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| Categorizing Open Source Software | |
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| Specific characteristics of Open Source Software | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Transformation: how is the Open Source process organized and managed? | |
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| The OSS development process | |
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| Taboos and norms in OSS development | |
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| The OSS development life cycle | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Stakeholders: who are the developers and organizations involved? | |
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| OSS stakeholders | |
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| OSS developer communities | |
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| OSS user communities | |
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| OSS commercial organizations | |
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| OSS non-commercial organizations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Environment: where and when does Open Source development take place? | |
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| The "where?" of OSS | |
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| The "when?" of OSS | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| World-view: what are the motivations behind Open Source development? | |
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| A framework for classifying OSS motivations | |
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| Technological micro-level (individual) motivation | |
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| Technological macro-level (organization/community) motivation | |
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| Economic micro-level (individual) motivation | |
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| Economic macro-level (organization/community) motivation | |
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| Socio-political micro-level (individual) motivation | |
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| Socio-political macro-level (organization/community) motivation | |
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| Critical questions and future research | |
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| Preparing for the future | |
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| Qualification revisited | |
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| Cathedrals in the bazaar | |
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| Collectivist vs. individual focus | |
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| OSS vs. OSI vs. FSF | |
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| Is OSS a paradigm shift in software engineering? | |
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| OSS and black boxes--The Berkeley Conundrum | |
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| One size fits all--is OSS the future of software? | |
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| Is OSS the future of work? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |