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Open Source as Business Strategy
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By
Ron Goldman, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, California, U.S.A.
Richard Gabriel, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, California, U.S.A.
Description
It's a plain fact: regardless of how smart, creative, and innovative your organization is, there are more smart, creative, and innovative
people outside your organization than inside. Open source offers the possibility of bringing more innovation into your business by building
a creative community that reaches beyond the barriers of the business. The key is developing a web-driven community where new types of
collaboration and creativity can flourish. Since 1998 Ron Goldman and Richard Gabriel have been helping groups at Sun Microsystems understand
open source and advising them on how to build successful communities around open source projects. In this book the authors present lessons
learned from their own experiences with open source, as well as those from other well-known projects such as Linux, Apache, and Mozilla.
Audience
Business executives who need to understand how open source strategies can help them achieve their business goals, managers who want to
use open source to run a project, engineers who work on open source projects and need an idea of what is expected of them, and readers
interested in better understanding open source?its history, philosophy, and future.
Contents
Foreword by Chris Meyer, Monitor Group
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Open Source: A Different Way Of Doing
Business
Innovation Happens Elsewhere
Jumping In
Understanding Open SourceCommunities
Who This Book Is Intended For
Who Else This Book
Is Intended For
2. Innovation Happens Elsewhere
Open Source Is A Commons
Can The Commons Make A Difference?
The
Commons And Software
Open Versus Closed
Use Of The Commons: Creativity & Conversations
Innovation Happens Elsewhere
3. What
Is Open Source?
Open Source In Brief
Philosophical Tenets Of Open Source
Open Source And Agile Methodologies
Common Open Source
Myths, Misconceptions & Questions
Open Source And Community
The Secret Of Why Open Source Works
Variations On Open Source: Gated Communities
And Internal Open Source
Open Source: Why Do They Do It?
4. Why Consider Open Source?
Business Reasons For Choosing
To Open Source Your Code
Creating Your Business Model And Following Through With It
Measuring Success
An Example: The Innovation Happens
Elsewhere Strategy
Business Reasons For Using Open Source Products
5. Licenses
What The License Does
What The License
Does Not Do
More On Copyright
And A Quick Word On Patents
The Licenses
Dual Licensing
Supplementing The License?Contributor Agreements
Licenses For Documentation
6. How To Do Open Source Development
The Infrastructure Needed For An Open Source Project
Software Lifecycle
Building A Community
Ending An Open Source Project
Joining An Existing Open Source Project
Open Source Within A Company
7. Going With Open Source
Deciding To Do Open Source
How To Prepare To Do Open Source At Your Company
Getting Approval
From Your Company
Problems You Can Expect To Encounter
8. How To Build Momentum
Marketing Your Project
Focus On
Your Users And Contributors
Community Outreach
Harvesting Innovation
Welcome The Unexpected
9. What To Avoid?Known Problems
And Failures
Not Understanding Open Source
Don't Needlessly Duplicate An Existing Effort
Licensing Issues
Design Issues
Code
Issues
Trying To Control Too Much
Marketing Issues
Tension Between An Open Source Project And The Rest Of Your Company
Community Issues
Lack Of Resources
Recovering From Mistakes
10. Closing Thoughts
Appendix A: Resources
Further
Reading
Websites Of Interest
Tools
Licenses
Appendix B: Licenses
Apache Software License
Artistic License
Berkeley
Software Distribution (BSD)
FreeBSD Documentation License
GNU Free Documentation License (FDL)
GNU General Public License (GPL)
GNU Lesser
General Public License (LGPL)
IBM Common Public License (CPL)
Microsoft Shared Source License For Windows CE .NET
MIT Or X License
Mozilla
Public License (MPL)
Open Publication License
Sun Community Source License (SCSL)
Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL)
Sun Public
Documentation License (PDL)
Appendix C: Contributor Agreements
Apache Contributor Agreement
Free Software Foundation
Copyright Assignment Form
Mozilla Contributor Assignment
OpenOffice.Org Contributor Assignment
Project JXTA Contributor Assignment
Appendix D: Article From XML.Com
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Hardbound, 424 pages, publication date: APR-2005
ISBN-13: 978-1-55860-889-4
ISBN-10: 1-55860-889-3
Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN
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