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The Success of Open Source

San Francisco Chronicle:

The growing popularity of the Linux operating system has drawn attention to a style of software development in which volunteers, collaborating over the Internet, can create programs that are cheaper, even arguably better, than those that emerge from paid staffers working at high-tech firms.

Now a new book argues that the style of development dubbed open source -- so-called because the working innards, or source code, are published freely -- has the potential to revolutionize not just the software and high-tech industries, but biotechnology, publishing and other fields.

"Open source is not just for hackers. It's a new way of organizing people to create complex products in a knowledge-based economy,'' said Steven Weber, author of "The Success of Open Source,'' from Harvard University Press.

Posted by Timothy Fredel at April 19, 2004 05:21 PM | TrackBack
Related Categories: Industry - Internet | Quadrant - Technological | Theme - 'Open Source Everywhere'

The Success of Open Source
Harvard University Press

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The Business and Economics of Linux and Open Source
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The Cathedral & the Bazaar (paperback)
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Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution (O'Reilly Open Source)
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