Description
Book SynopsisLearn 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.
This fully updated second edition includes an entire chapter on legal considerations such as trademarks and the latest happenings in open source licensing. It also expands on open hardware trends such as RISC-V, open governance, and the difference between community projects and commercial products, especially as seen through the lens of security.
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 within proprietary software, such as open betas. You''ll also examine the flipside, the Second Machine Age, and the ch
Table of Contents
1. The Beginnings of Free and Open Source Software
2. From "Free" to "Open Source" to Products
3. The Open Source Development Model
4. What's the Law?
5. Open Source’s Connection to the Past
6. Business Models and Accelerated Development
7. The Challenges Facing Open Source Today
8. Open Source Opportunities and Challenges
