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Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy (Hardcover)

by Ron Goldman (Author), Richard P. Gabriel (Author) "BUSINESS IS CHANGING after the expansive thinking of the law 1990s followed by the lessons learned in the early 2000s: It no longer makes sense..." (more)
Key Phrases: Free Software Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, Common Lisp (more...)

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"Innovation Happens Elsewhere is at least as important for those who have no interest in software as those who do, because in the details of the history and practice of the open source community lie clues to the institutional adaptations of the information economy; in the clauses of the various software licenses lie the case law that will come to define property in the information age. There are other books that have a great deal to say about this evolution, but none combines the personal experience and inside-out insight to be gained from the engagement of Ron Goldman and Richard Gabriel in so many flesh-and-blood open source projects and the development of the structures that have supported them."—from the foreword by Chris Meyer, Monitor Group

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How to develop software with open source techiques—from renowned engineers

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Hardcover: 424 pages
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (April 25, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1558608893
ISBN-13: 978-1558608894
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
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BUSINESS IS CHANGING after the expansive thinking of the law 1990s followed by the lessons learned in the early 2000s: It no longer makes sense for every company to make and own every aspect of its business. Read the first page

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Free Software Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, Common Lisp, Red Hat, Sun Community Source License, Mozilla Public License, Artistic License, General Public License, Sun Microsystems, Turbo Pascal, Berkeley Software Distribution, Richard Stallman, United States, Sun Labs, Visualization Toolkit, Don't Needlessly Duplicate, Java Community Process, Linus Torvalds, Marketing Your Project, Open Publication License, Sun Java Studio, Amy Jo Kim, Common Open-Source Myths, Garden of Eden

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Sun Microsystems by Vault Reports on 9 pages
The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog by Rebecca Blood on page 245, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology by Henry William Chesbrough on page 18, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing by Richard Hugo on page 20, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
The mythical man-month and other essays on software engineering by Frederick P Brooks on page 50, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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4.0 out of 5 stars online version, December 12, 2005

By	I. Maclean (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The authoors have made this book available for reading online under a creative commons license at:
http://dreamsongs.com/IHE/IHE.html
This is very generous of the authors and thankfully is happening more and more with FOSS related books. - see Karl Fogels "Producing Open source" or Lessigs "Free Culture".

By all means buy the hardcopy if you like the online version. Personally I'm more likely to want to support an author who is good enough to make the material available online.

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4.0 out of 5 stars sometimes look outside your company, August 3, 2005

By	W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

The authors explain how open source can be compatible with a company that develops its own proprietary software. A key point of the book is that going with open source can be a very pragmatic decision about speeding up product development. Because no matter how innovative your people are, the chances are high that due to sheer numbers of other people, you can use open source code developed by the latter.

One does not have to buy into the entire open source mindset to acknowledge that there is merit in accessing external code that is useful. If for no other reason than that your competitors might already be doing so. Reimplementing an open source application takes time to write and debug. So sometimes, look outside your company.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Open Source for dummies, April 17, 2006

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This book is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the world of open source software. It approaches open source from a business angle and discusses how businesses can use open source to further their goals.

The book starts with discussing the philosophy of open source, the various strategies that businesses can adopt to engage with the open source community, the various licenses that can be used and also how to successfully conduct an open source project by building a community.

The language used is simple and the examples used are real.

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