Open Sources Voices from the Open Source Revolution [Paperback]

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 inOpen 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 Sourcesis the new gospel: a powerful vision from the movement's spiritual leaders. For businesses integrating open-source software into their enterprise,Open Sourcesreveals 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)