Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

Author(s) : Chris Dibona (Editor), Mark Stone (Editor), Sam Ockman (Editor), Brian Behlendorf, Scott Bradner, Jim Hamerly, Kirk McKusick, Tim O'Reilly, Tom Paquin, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Paul Vixie, Larry Wall and Bob Young
Publication date : Jan 1999
ISBN : 1-565-92582-3
Pages : 280
Publisher : O'Reilly & Associates
Free license : GNU General Public License

Book excerpts:

In Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, leaders of Open Source come together in print for the first time to discuss a 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.

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 -- GNU/Linux -- away.

Reviews:

Amazon.com

"It attempts to couch the issue of free vs. non-free software in religious terms..."

Linux Today

"In the end, there is absolutely nothing bad to say about Open Sources except that if you can't afford to buy a copy you might just have to steal one. "

Danny Yee's Book Reviews

"...newcomers to the concept of free software are likely to find it confusing, while others can read just those portions that interest them online."

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