Books

Books : reviews

Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, Mark Stone, eds.
Open Sources: voices from the open source revolution.
O'Reilly. 1999

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Eric S. Raymond. A Brief History of Hackerdom. 1998
From the early days of the 1960s, up to the the appearance of Linux in the early 1990s
• Eric S. Raymond. The Revenge of the Hackers. 1998
The success of the Open Source movement in the 1990s, and where it might go from here
• Marshall Kirk McKusick. Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: from AT&T-owned to freely redistributable. 1999
• Scott Bradner. The Internet engineering task force. 1999
• Richard Stallman. The GNU operating system and the Free Software movement. 1998
• Michael Tiemann. Future of Cynus Solutions: an entrepreneur's account. 1999
• Paul Vixie. Software Engineering. 1999
• Linus Torvalds. The Linux edge. 1999
• Robert Young. Giving it away: how Red Hat Software stumbled across a new economic model and helped improve an industry. 1999
• Larry Wall. Diligence, patience, and humility. 1999
• Brian Behlendorf. Open Source as a business strategy. 1999
• Bruce Perens. The Open Source definition. 1998
• Tim O'Reilly. Hardware, software, and infoware. 1999
• Jim Hamerley, Tom Paquin, Susan Walton. Freeing the source: the story of Mozilla. 1998