Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

Open Sources : Voices from the Open Source Revolution


1st Edition January 1999
1-56592-582-3, Order Number: 5823
280 pages, $24.95


Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, and Mark Stone

A Brief History of Hackerdom
Eric S. Raymond

Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable
Marshall Kirk McKusick

The Internet Engineering Task Force
Scott Bradner

The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
Richard Stallman

Future of Cygnus Solutions: An Entrepreneur's Account
Michael Tiemann

Software Engineering
Paul Vixie

The Linux Edge
Linus Torvalds

Giving It Away: How Red Hat Software Stumbled Across a New Economic Model and Helped Improve an Industry
Robert Young

Diligence, Patience, and Humility
Larry Wall

Open Source as a Business Strategy
Brian Behlendorf

The Open Source Definition
Bruce Perens

Hardware, Software, and Infoware
Tim O'Reilly

Freeing the Source: The Story of Mozilla
Jim Hamerly and Tom Paquin with Susan Walton

The Revenge of the Hackers
Eric S. Raymond

Appendix A: The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate

Appendix B: The Open Source Definition, Version 1.0

Contributors

Copyright

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