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By Chris DiBona, Mark Stone, Danese Cooper
October 2005
Pages: 488
ISBN 10: 0-596-00802-3 |
ISBN 13: 9780596008024
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 and CEO Michael Olson and Open Source Business Conference founder Matt Asay.
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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 and CEO Michael Olson and Open Source Business Conference founder Matt Asay.
From China, Europe, India, and Brazil we get essays that describe the developing world's efforts to join the technology forefront and use open source to take control of its high tech destiny. For anyone with a strong interest in technology trends, these essays are a must-read.
The enduring significance of open source goes well beyond high technology, however. At the heart of the new paradigm is network-enabled distributed collaboration: the growing impact of this model on all forms of online collaboration is fundamentally challenging our modern notion of community.
What does the future hold? Veteran open source commentators Tim O'Reilly and Doc Searls offer their perspectives, as do leading open source scholars Steven Weber and Sonali Shah. Andrew Hessel traces the migration of open source ideas from computer technology to biotechnology, and Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger and Slashdot co-founder Jeff Bates provide frontline views of functioning, flourishing online collaborative communities.
The power of collaboration, enabled by the internet and open source software, is changing the world in ways we can only begin to imagine.Open Sources 2.0 further develops the evolutionary picture that emerged in the original Open Sources and expounds on the transformative open source philosophy.
"This is a wonderful collection of thoughts and examples by great minds from the free software movement, and is a must have for anyone who follows free software development and project histories."
--Robin Monks, Free Software Magazine
The list of contributors include
- Alolita Sharma
- Andrew Hessel
- Ben Laurie
- Boon-Lock Yeo
- Bruno Souza
- Chris DiBona
- Danese Cooper
- Doc Searls
- Eugene Kim
- Gregorio Robles
- Ian Murdock
- Jeff Bates
- Jeremy Allison
- Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
- Kim Polese
- Larry Sanger
- Louisa Liu
- Mark Stone
- Mark Stone
- Matthew N. Asay
- Michael Olson
- Mitchell Baker
- Pamela Jones
- Robert Adkins
- Russ Nelson
- Sonali K. Shah
- Stephen R. Walli
- Steven Weber
- Sunil Saxena
- Tim O'Reilly
- Wendy Seltzer
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First Edition: October 2005
ISBN: 0-596-00802-3
Pages: 488
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"A collection of articles (perhaps 'essays' is a better term) is quite a different animal than a book authored by a single writer. Having multiple points of view rather than a single opinion should stimulate discussion, and from this perspective Open Source 2.0 is an unqualified success. But the elements that these essays have in common are equally revealing and thought provoking. A number of authors comment on the necessity of the Internet--itself a product of open source—for the success of open source. The internet 'enables the open source development model to work'. We also see an emphasis on the process rather than the fact of open source. This certainly got me to thinking back to some ill-remembered concepts from undergraduate years, namely the 'global village' and the medium as the message/massage"
--Peter Lavin, Unix Review, January 2006
"Open Source Software (OSS) has radically redefined the landscape of the software industry and the Information Technology field. As much a mindset as a methodology, there are many elements of OSS that draw some of the deepest thinkers of our field. You can find some of those essays in the book Open Sources 2.0 - The Continuing Evolution, edited by Chris DiBona, Danese Cooper, and Mark Stone. There's a little something here for everyone... If you're part of the OSS movement, or if you're trying to understand how it will affect your business, this is a good book to read and ponder..."
--Thomas "Duffbert" Duff, Duffbert's Random Musings, December 2005
