Table of Contents | Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution

Open Sources 2.0
By Danese Cooper, Chris DiBona, Mark Stone
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Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: October 2005
ISBN: 0-596-00802-3
Pages: 488

Table of Contents | Index

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. "So, How Do You Make Money from Free Software?"

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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Index