The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental RevolutionaryOpen source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will install it in the next two years. This revolutionary model for collaborative software development is being embraced and studied by many of the biggest players in the high-tech industry, from Sun Microsystems to IBM to Intel.The Cathedral & the Bazaar is a must for anyone who cares about the future of the computer industry or the dynamics of the information economy. Already, billions of dollars have been made and lost based on the ideas in this book. Its conclusions will be studied, debated, and implemented for years to come. According to Bob Young, "This is Eric Raymond's great contribution to the success of the open source revolution, to the adoption of Linux-based operating systems, and to the success of open source users and the companies that supply them."The interest in open source software development has grown enormously in the past year. This revised and expanded paperback edition includes new material on open source developments in 1999 and 2000. Raymond's clear and effective writing style accurately describing the benefits of open source software has been key to its success. With major vendors creating acceptance for open source within companies, independent vendors will become the open source story in 2001. |
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... free to skip ahead; the whole does tell a story, and you may find that what you learn later makes sense of what ... software, and incorporates contributions from people too numerous to list here. The versions printed here are not fixed ...
... Free Software Foundation and dedicate himself to producing high-quality free software. Levy eulogized him as ''the last true hacker'', a description which happily proved incorrect. Stallman's grandest scheme neatly epitomized the ...
... software and tool-building challenges of getting the most use out of these features. Berkeley Unix developed built ... free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the 12 The Cathedral and the Bazaar The ...
... software-business model wasn't giving hackers what they wanted. Neither was the Free Software Foundation. The development of HURD, RMS's long-promised free Unix kernel for hackers, got stalled for years and failed to produce anything ...
... Free. Unixes. Into the gap left by the Free Software Foundation's uncompleted HURD had stepped a Helsinki University student named Linus Torvalds. In 1991 he began developing a free Unix kernel for 386 machines using the Free Software ...
Contents
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Chapter 3 Homesteading the Noosphere | 65 |
Chapter 4 The Magic Cauldron | 113 |
Chapter 5 Revenge of the Hackers | 167 |
Beyond Software? | 193 |
Appendix A How to Become a Hacker | 195 |
Appendix B Statistical Trends in the Fetchmail Projects Growth | 215 |
Notes Bibliography and Acknowledgments | 219 |
Index | 237 |
Colophon | 242 |
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