The Cathedral & the Bazaar by Raymond, Eric S. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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The Cathedral & the Bazaar

SPECIAL OFFER: Upgrade this ebook with O’Reilly Dedication Foreword Preface: Why You Should Care

1. A Brief History of Hackerdom

Prologue: The Real Programmers The Early Hackers The Rise of Unix The End of Elder Days The Proprietary-Unix Era The Early Free Unixes The Great Web Explosion

2. The Cathedral and the Bazaar

The Cathedral and the Bazaar The Mail Must Get Through The Importance of Having Users Release Early, Release Often How Many Eyeballs Tame Complexity When Is a Rose Not a Rose? Popclient becomes Fetchmail Fetchmail Grows Up A Few More Lessons from Fetchmail Necessary Preconditions for the Bazaar Style The Social Context of Open-Source Software On Management and the Maginot Line Epilog: Netscape Embraces the Bazaar

3. Homesteading the Noosphere

An Introductory Contradiction The Varieties of Hacker Ideology Promiscuous Theory, Puritan Practice Ownership and Open Source Locke and Land Title The Hacker Milieu as Gift Culture The Joy of Hacking The Many Faces of Reputation Ownership Rights and Reputation Incentives The Problem of Ego The Value of Humility Global Implications of the Reputation-Game Model How Fine a Gift? Noospheric Property and the Ethology of Territory Causes of Conflict Project Structures and Ownership Conflict and Conflict Resolution Acculturation Mechanisms and the Link to Academia Gift Outcompetes Exchange Conclusion: From Custom to Customary Law Questions for Further Research

4. The Magic Cauldron

Indistinguishable From Magic Beyond Geeks Bearing Gifts The Manufacturing Delusion The Information Wants to be Free Myth The Inverse Commons Reasons for Closing Source Use-Value Funding Models

The Apache Case: Cost-Sharing The Cisco Case: Risk-Spreading

Why Sale Value is Problematic Indirect Sale-Value Models

Loss-Leader/Market Positioner Widget Frosting Give Away the Recipe, Open a Restaurant Accessorizing Free the Future, Sell the Present Free the Software, Sell the Brand Free the Software, Sell the Content

When to be Open, When to be Closed

What Are the Payoffs? How Do They Interact? Doom: A Case Study Knowing When to Let Go

Open Source as a Strategic Weapon

Cost-sharing as a competitive weapon Resetting the competition Growing the pond Preventing a choke hold

Open Source and Strategic Business Risk The Business Ecology of Open Source Coping with Success Open R&D and the Reinvention of Patronage Getting There From Here Conclusion: Life after the Revolution Afterword: Why Closing a Drivers Loses Its Vendor Money

5. Revenge of the Hackers

Revenge of the Hackers Beyond Brooks's Law Memes and Mythmaking The Road to Mountain View The Origins of Open Source

Forget Bottom-Up; Work on Top-Down Linux is Our Best Demonstration Case Capture the Fortune 500 Co-opt the Prestige Media that Serve the Fortune 500 Educate Hackers in Guerrilla Marketing Tactics Use the Open Source Certification Mark to Keep Things Pure

The Accidental Revolutionary Phases of the Campaign The Facts on the Ground Into the Future

6. Afterword: Beyond Software? A. How to Become a Hacker

Why This Document? What Is a Hacker? The Hacker Attitude Basic Hacking Skills Status in the Hacker Culture The Hacker/Nerd Connection Points For Style Other Resources Frequently Asked Questions

B. Statistical Trends in the Fetchmail Project's Growth C. Notes, Bibliography, and Acknowledgements

A Brief History of Hackerdom

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The Cathedral and the Bazaar

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Homesteading the Noosphere

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Acknowledgements

The Magic Cauldron

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Acknowledgements

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