Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution

ISBN: 0596008023
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2004
Pages: 217

Authors: Chris DiBona, Mark Stone, Danese Cooper

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Open Sources 2.0
Table of Contents
Copyright
Foreword: Source Is Everything
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Open Source: Competition and Evolution
Chapter 1. The Mozilla Project: Past and Future
Section 1.1. Founding of the Mozilla Organization: Obvious for Developers, a Bold Step for Management
Section 1.2. Young Adulthoodthe Mozilla Foundation
Section 1.3. The Future
Chapter 2. Open Source and Proprietary Software Development
Section 2.1. Proprietary Versus Open Source?
Section 2.2. Comfort
Section 2.3. Distributed Development
Section 2.4. Collaborative Development
Section 2.5. Software Distribution
Section 2.6. How Proprietary Software Development Has Changed Open Source
Section 2.7. Some Final Words
Chapter 3. A Tale of Two Standards
Section 3.1. The POSIX Standard
Section 3.2. First Implementation Past the Post
Section 3.3. Future Proofing
Section 3.4. Wither POSIX?
Section 3.5. The Win32 (Windows) Standard
Section 3.6. The Tar Pit: Backward Compatibility
Section 3.7. World Domination, Fast
Section 3.8. Wither Win32?
Section 3.9. Choosing a Standard
Chapter 4. Open Source and Security
Section 4.1. Many Eyes
Section 4.2. Open Versus Closed Source
Section 4.3. Digression: Threat Models
Section 4.4. The Future
Section 4.5. Interesting Projects
Section 4.6. Conclusion
Chapter 5. Dual Licensing
Section 5.1. Business and Politics
Section 5.2. Open Source: Distribution Versus Development
Section 5.3. A Primer on Intellectual Property
Section 5.4. Dual Licensing
Section 5.5. Practical Considerations
Section 5.6. Trends and the Future
Section 5.7. Global Development
Section 5.8. Open Models
Section 5.9. The Future of Software
Chapter 6. Open Source and the Commoditization of Software
Section 6.1. Commoditization and the IT Industry
Section 6.2. Decommoditization: The Failure of Open Systems
Section 6.3. Linux: A Response from the Trenches
Section 6.4.
Section 6.5. The First Business Models for Linux
Section 6.6. Linux Commercialization at a Crossroads
Section 6.7. Proprietary Linux?
Section 6.8. What s at Stake?
Chapter 7. Open Source and the Commodity Urge: Disruptive Models for a Disruptive Development Process
Section 7.1. Introduction
Section 7.2. A Brief History of Software
Section 7.3. A New Brand of Intellectual Property Protection
Section 7.4. Open Distribution, Not Source
Section 7.5. Open Source Business Models
Section 7.6. Conclusion
Chapter 8. Under the Hood: Open Source and Open Standards Business Models in Context
Section 8.1. Open Standards
Section 8.2. Open Source Software
Section 8.3. The Real Business Model
Section 8.4. Open Source Complements
Section 8.5. Open Standards Complements
Section 8.6. Conclusion
Chapter 9. Open Source and the Small Entrepreneur
Section 9.1. Introduction
Section 9.2. Freemacs and Open Source
Section 9.3. Freemacs and Business
Section 9.4. Packet Drivers
Section 9.5. Packet Driver Income
Section 9.6. Qmail
Section 9.7. Open Source Economics
Section 9.8. Where Do We Go from Here?
Section 9.9. For Further Reading
Chapter 10. Why Open Source Needs Copyright Politics
Section 10.1. From Movable Type to MovableType
Section 10.2. Copyright in Code
Section 10.3. Secondary Liability
Section 10.4. Anticircumvention
Section 10.5. The Threat to Research
Section 10.6. Technology Mandates
Section 10.7. What About That Media Server?
Chapter 11. Libre Software in Europe
Section 11.1. Brief Summary of an Already Long History
Section 11.2. The Development Community
Section 11.3. The Organization of the Community
Section 11.4. Libre Software in the Private Sector
Section 11.5. Public Administrations and Libre Software
Section 11.6. Legal Issues
Section 11.7. Libre Software in Education
Section 11.8. Research on Libre Software
Section 11.9. The Future Is Hard to Read....
Chapter 12. OSS in India
Section 12.1. Business
Section 12.2. Government
Section 12.3. Challenges in Local Adoption of OSS
Section 12.4. OSS in Education
Section 12.5. Conclusion
Chapter 13. When China Dances with OSS
Section 13.1. What OSS Was and Is in China
Section 13.2. SWOT Analysis of OSS in China
Section 13.3. Where OSS Is Going for China and Beyond
Chapter 14. How Much Freedom Do You Want?
Section 14.1. Livre Versus Gratis
Section 14.2. Background for Freedom: The Market
Section 14.3. Developing the Software Livre Movement
Section 14.4. Not About Price, but About Choice
Section 14.5. Choice Requires More Than Free Software
Section 14.6. How Java Technology Can Help
Section 14.7. Java Provides the Other Side of the Choice
Section 14.8. Walking the Path
Section 14.9. What to Do?
Section 14.10. We Are Getting There
Section 14.11. References
Part II: Beyond Open Source: Collaboration and Community
Chapter 15. Making a New World
Chapter 16. The Open Source Paradigm Shift
Section 16.1. Software as Commodity
Section 16.2. Network-Enabled Collaboration
Section 16.3. Customizability and Software-as-Service
Section 16.4. Building the Internet Operating System
Section 16.5. Conclusion
Chapter 17. Extending Open Source Principles Beyond Software Development
Section 17.1. How Did It Happen and How Does It Work?
Section 17.2. Working as a Group
Section 17.3. Dealing with the Disrupters
Section 17.4. The Difference Between Doing Legal Research in Public and Writing Software in Public
Section 17.5. Why and When It Works
Chapter 18. Open Source Biology
Section 18.1. The Rise of Modern Biotechnology
Section 18.2. Intellectual Property and Growing Challenges
Section 18.3. Open Source Biology
Section 18.4. Synthetic Biology and Genomic Programming
Section 18.5. The Risk of Biological Hacking
Section 18.6. Future Trends in Open Source Biology
Chapter 19. Everything Is Known
Section 19.1. The PACT Project
Section 19.2. The World Trade Center Recovery Effort
Section 19.3. Facilitating Emergent Collaboration
Section 19.4. Acknowledgments
Section 19.5. References
Chapter 20. The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir
Section 20.1. Some Recent Press Reports
Section 20.2. Nupedia
Section 20.3. The Origins of Wikipedia
Section 20.4. Wikipedia s First Few Months
Section 20.5. A Series of Controversies
Section 20.6. My Resignation and Final Few Months with the Project
Section 20.7. Final Attempts to Save Nupedia
Section 20.8. Conclusions
Chapter 21. Open Beyond Software
Section 21.1. Sports Equipment Innovation by Users and Their Communities
Section 21.2. Community-Based Innovation and Development: An Even Broader Phenomenon
Section 21.3. Reframing: Where Does Innovation Come From?
Section 21.4. Conclusion
Section 21.5. References
Chapter 22. Patterns of Governance in Open Source
Section 22.1. The Empirical Problem Set: What Are We Aiming At?
Section 22.2. The Theoretical Problem: How Is Knowledge Distributed?
Section 22.3. Design Principles for a Referee Function
Section 22.4. What Should We Do Differently?
Chapter 23. Communicating Many to Many
Section 23.1. The Origins of Slashdot
Section 23.2. Slashdot in the Early Days
Section 23.3. The Slashdot Effect
Section 23.4. Trolls, Anonymous Cowards, and Insensitive Clods
Section 23.5. Columbine
Section 23.6. Slashdot Grows Up
Section 23.7. September 11
Section 23.8. Conclusion
Part III: Appendixes
Appendix A. The Open Source Definition
Section A.1. The Open Source Definition, Version 1.9
Appendix B. Referenced Open Source Licenses
Section B.1. The BSD License
Section B.2. The GNU General Public License (GPL)
Section B.3. The Sleepycat License
Section B.4. The Creative Commons License
Appendix C. Columns from Slashdot
Section C.1. Simple Solutions
Section C.2. Why Kids Kill
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