Open Sources by DiBona, Chris -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

SPECIAL OFFER: Upgrade this ebook with O’Reilly 1. Acknowledgments 1. Introduction

1.1. Prologue 1.2. What Is Free Software and How Does It Relate to Open Source? 1.3. What Is Open Source Software? 1.4. The Dark Side of the Force 1.5. Use the Source, Luke 1.6. Innovation Through the Scientific Method 1.7. Perils to Open Source 1.8. Motivating the Open Source Hacker 1.9. The Venture and Investment Future of Linux 1.10. Science and the New Renaissance

2. A Brief History of Hackerdom

2.1. Prologue: The Real Programmers 2.2. The Early Hackers 2.3. The Rise of Unix 2.4. The End of Elder Days 2.5. The Proprietary Unix Era 2.6. The Early Free Unixes 2.7. The Great Web Explosion

3. Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable

3.1. Early History 3.2. Early Distributions 3.3. VAX Unix 3.4. DARPA Support 3.5. 4.2BSD 3.6. 4.3BSD 3.7. Networking, Release 1 3.8. 4.3BSD-Reno 3.9. Networking, Release 2 3.10. The Lawsuit 3.11. 4.4BSD 3.12. 4.4BSD-Lite, Release 2

4. The Internet Engineering Task Force

4.1. The History of the IETF 4.2. IETF Structure and Features 4.3. IETF Working Groups 4.4. IETF Documents 4.5. The IETF Process 4.6. Open Standards, Open Documents, and Open Source

5. The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement

5.1. The First Software-Sharing Community 5.2. The Collapse of the Community 5.3. A Stark Moral Choice 5.4. Free as in Freedom 5.5. GNU Software and the GNU System 5.6. Commencing the Project 5.7. The First Steps 5.8. GNU Emacs 5.9. Is a Program Free for Every User? 5.10. Copyleft and the GNU GPL 5.11. The Free Software Foundation 5.12. Free Software Support 5.13. Technical Goals 5.14. Donated Computers 5.15. The GNU Task List 5.16. The GNU Library GPL 5.17. Scratching an Itch? 5.18. Unexpected Developments 5.19. The GNU HURD 5.20. Alix 5.21. Linux and GNU/Linux 5.22. Challenges in Our Future

5.22.1. Secret Hardware 5.22.2. Non-Free Libraries 5.22.3. Software Patents 5.22.4. Free Documentation 5.22.5. We Must Talk About Freedom

5.23. "Open Source" 5.24. Try!

6. Future of Cygnus Solutions: An Entrepreneur's Account

6.1. Cygnus in the Early Years 6.2. GNUPro 6.3. Challenges 6.4. Getting Funded Beyond Open Source—eCos 6.5. Reflections and Vision of the Future

7. Software Engineering

7.1. The Software Engineering Process

7.1.1. Marketing Requirements 7.1.2. System-Level Design 7.1.3. Detailed Design 7.1.4. Implementation 7.1.5. Integration 7.1.6. Field Testing 7.1.7. Support

7.2. Testing Details

7.2.1. Code Coverage Analysis 7.2.2. Regression Tests

7.3. Open Source Software Engineering

7.3.1. Marketing Requirements 7.3.2. System-Level Design 7.3.3. Detailed Design 7.3.4. Implementation 7.3.5. Integration 7.3.6. Field Testing 7.3.7. Support

7.4. Conclusions

8. The Linux Edge

8.1. Amiga and the Motorola Port 8.2. Microkernels 8.3. From Alpha to Portability 8.4. Kernel Space and User Space 8.5. GCC 8.6. Kernel Modules 8.7. Portability Today 8.8. The Future of Linux

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

9.1. Where Did Red Hat Come From? 9.2. How Do You Make Money in Free Software? 9.3. We Are in the Commodity Product Business 9.4. The Strategic Appeal of This Model to the Corporate Computing Industry 9.5. Licensing, Open Source, or Free Software 9.6. The Economic Engine Behind Development of Open Source Software 9.7. Unique Benefits 9.8. The Great Unix Flaw 9.9. It's Your Choice

10. Diligence, Patience, and Humility 11. Open Source as a Business Strategy

11.1. It's All About Platforms 11.2. Analyzing Your Goals for an Open-Source Project 11.3. Evaluating the Market Need for Your Project 11.4. Open Source's Position in the Spectrum of Software 11.5. Nature Abhors a Vacuum 11.6. Donate, or Go It Alone? 11.7. Bootstrapping 11.8. What License to Use?

11.8.1. The BSD-Style Copyright 11.8.2. The Mozilla Public License 11.8.3. The GNU Public License

11.9. Tools for Launching Open Source Projects

12. The Open Source Definition

12.1. History 12.2. KDE, Qt, and Troll Tech 12.3. Analysis of the Open Source Definition

12.3.1. The Open Source Definition (Version 1.0)

12.4. Analysis of Licenses and Their Open Source Compliance

12.4.1. Public Domain 12.4.2. Free Software Licenses in General 12.4.3. The GNU General Public License 12.4.4. The GNU Library General Public License 12.4.5. The X, BSD, and Apache Licenses 12.4.6. The Artistic License 12.4.7. The Netscape Public License and the Mozilla Public License

12.5. Choosing a License 12.6. The Future

13. Hardware, Software, and Infoware 14. Freeing the Source: The Story of Mozilla

14.1. Making It Happen 14.2. Creating the License 14.3. Mozilla.org 14.4. Behind the Curtain 14.5. April Fool's Day, 1998

15. The Revenge of the Hackers

15.1. Beyond Brooks's Law 15.2. Memes and Mythmaking 15.3. The Road to Mountain View 15.4. The Origins of "Open Source" 15.5. The Accidental Revolutionary 15.6. Phases of the Campaign 15.7. The Facts on the Ground 15.8. Into the Future

A. The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate B. The Open Source Definition, Version 1.0

B.1. GNU General Public License

B.1.1. Table of Contents B.1.2. GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

B.1.2.1. Preamble B.1.2.2. TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION B.1.2.3. How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

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