How Open Source Ate Software: Understand the Open Source Movement and So Much More

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Learn how free software became open source and how you can sell open source software. This book provides a historical context of how open source has thoroughly transformed how we write software, how we cooperate, how we communicate, how we organize, and, ultimately, how we think about business values. You'll look at project and community examples including Linux, BSD, Apache, and Kubernetes, understand the open source development model, and how open source has influenced approaches more broadly, even proprietary software, such as open betas. You'll also examine the flipside, the "Second Machine Age," and the challenges of open source-based business models. Today, open source serves as shorthand for much broader trends and behaviors. It's not just about a free (in all senses of the word) alternative to commercial software. It increasingly is the new commercial software.How Open Source Ate Softwarereveals how open source has much in common, and is often closely allied, with many other trends in business and society. You'll see how it enables projects that go beyond any individual company. That makes open source not just a story about software, but a story about almost everything. What You'll Learn Understand open source opportunities and challenges Sell software if you're giving it away Apply open source principles more broadly to openorg, devops, etc. Review which organizational incentives you can implement Who This Book Is For Anyone who has an interest in what is happening in open source and the open source community, and anyone who is contemplating making a business that involves open source. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii The Beginnings of Free and Open Source Software (Gordon Haff)....Pages 1-23 From “Free” to “Open Source” (Gordon Haff)....Pages 25-47 Open Source Development Model (Gordon Haff)....Pages 49-79 Open Source’s Connection to the Past (Gordon Haff)....Pages 81-104 Business Models (Gordon Haff)....Pages 105-130 The Flip Side of Open Source (Gordon Haff)....Pages 131-149 Open Source Opportunities and Challenges (Gordon Haff)....Pages 151-173 Back Matter ....Pages 175-180