Overview
Demonstrates how open source has proven to be such a good model for developing software and why that makes it valuable
How open source principles apply beyond software to other aspects of how communities communicate and businesses interact and organize
Understand the effects of open source and its widespread influence over many aspects of technology businesses and beyond
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About this book
Learn 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.
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 proprietary software, such as open betas. You'll also examine the flipside, the "Second Machine Age," and the challenges of open source-based business models.
Today, open source serves as shorthand for much broader trends and behaviors. It’s not just about a free (in all senses of the word) alternative to commercial software. It increasingly is the new commercial software. How Open Source Ate Software reveals how open source has much in common, and is often closely allied, with many other trends in business and society. You'll see how it enables projects that go beyond any individual company. That makes open source not just a story about software, but a story about almost everything.What You'll Learn
Understand open source opportunities and challenges
Sell software if you’re giving it away
Apply open source principles more broadly to openorg, devops, etc.
Review which organizational incentives you can implement
Who This Book Is For
Anyone who has an interest in what is happening in open source and the open source community, and anyone who is contemplating making a business that involves open source.
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About the author
Gordon Haff is Red Hat technology evangelist, is a frequent and highly acclaimed speaker at customer and industry events, and helps develop strategy across Red Hat’s full portfolio of cloud solutions. He is the co-author of Pots and Vats to Computers and Apps: How Software Learned to Package Itself in addition to numerous other publications. Prior to Red Hat, Gordon wrote hundreds of research notes, was frequently quoted in publications like The New York Times on a wide range of IT topics, and advised clients on product and marketing strategies. Earlier in his career, he was responsible for bringing a wide range of computer systems, from minicomputers to large UNIX servers, to market while at Data General. Gordon has engineering degrees from MIT and Dartmouth and an MBA from Cornell’s Johnson School. Follow him on Twitter @ghaff.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How Open Source Ate Software
Book Subtitle: Understand the Open Source Movement and So Much More
Authors: Gordon Haff
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3894-3
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Gordon Haff 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-3894-3Published: 21 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 180
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Open Source