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Open Sources 2. 0 The Continuing Evolution

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ISBN-10: 0596008023

ISBN-13: 9780596008024

Edition: 2005

Authors: Chris DiBona, Mark Stone, Danese Cooper

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"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 business executive will find analyses of business strategies from the likes of Sleepycat co-founder…    
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Book details

List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.97" wide x 9.13" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English

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.

Foreword: Source Is Everything
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction
Open Source: Competition and Evolution
The Mozilla Project: Past and Future
Open Source and Proprietary Software Development
A Tale of Two Standards
Open Source and Security
Dual Licensing
Open Source and the Commoditization of Software
Open Source and the Commodity Urge: Disruptive Models for a Disruptive Development Process
Under the Hood: Open Source and Open Standards Business Models in Context
Open Source and the Small Entrepreneur
Why Open Source Needs Copyright Politics
Libre Software in Europe
OSS in India
When China Dances with OSS
How Much Freedom Do You Want?
Beyond Open Source: Collaboration and Community
Making a New World
The Open Source Paradigm Shift
Extending Open Source Principles Beyond Software Development
Open Source Biology
Everything Is Known
The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir
Open Beyond Software
Patterns of Governance in Open Source
Communicating Many to Many
Appendixes
The Open Source Definition
Referenced Open Source Licenses
Columns from Slashdot
Index