Description
Book Synopsis
The open source movement is a worldwide attempt to keep the scientific advances created by software development openly available for everyone to understand and improve upon. This book addresses prominent projects in the open source movement, along with its enabling technologies, social characteristics, legal issues, business venues, and public and educational roles.
Trade Review
'Provide[s] a well laid out review of the open source movement, including its technologies, policies, and impact and implications. … Overall, this book ties together the many interlocking pieces within the development and history of the open source movement.' A. Hollister, CHOICE
'The authors lay out the issues around a variety of open source topics in a clear, accessible prose.' Michele Tepper, Resources
'… A thorough effort … One of the most rigorous treatments of the social, legal and economic aspects of open source I have come across. I found the language used in the book accessible and inviting to readers from a range of backgrounds, both technical and non-technical. I recommend this book for anyone interested in open source and ideal for readers new to it.' The British Computer Society
'This book, is a recommended as a comprehensive introduction to the free software/open source ecosystem.' Andrew Katz, Magazine of the Society for Computers and Law
'This book should be useful to anyone using open source software technology or defining policies for it.' StickyMinds.com Books Guide
Table of Contents
1. Introduction; Part I. Open Source - Internet Infrastructure, Platforms, and Technologies: 2. Open source Internet application projects; 3. The open source platform; 4. Technologies underlying open source development; Part II. Social, Psychological, Legal, and Economic Aspects of Open Source: 5. Demographics, sociology, and psychology of open source development; 6. Legal issues in open source; 7. The economics of open source; Part III. Free Software: The Movement, the Public Sector, and the Future: 8. The GNU project and the free software foundation; 9. Open source in the public sector; 10. The future of the open source movement.
