How open source ate software : understand the open source movement and so much more /: understand the open source movement and so much more. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gordon Haff.
• Authors: Haff, Gordon
• Contents: Intro; Table of Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Beginnings of Free and Open Source Software; In the Beginning; Ah, Unix; No More Free Lunches?; PCs Were a Different Culture; Breaking Community; Free Software Enters the Fray; Establishing the Foundations of Free; Fragmented Hardware and Software; Vertical Silos Everywhere; Silos Turn On Their Side; Which Mass-Market Operating System Would Prevail?; Microsoft Swings for the Fences; Windows NT Poised to Take It All; The Internet Enters the Mainstream; From Scale-Up to Scale-Out Internet Servers Needed an Operating SystemEnter Linux; A New *nix; Linux Grows in Popularity; Eclipsing Unix; Open Source Accelerates; A New Enterprise IT Model; Born on the Web; Build or Buy?; Disrupting the Status Quo; From Disruption to Where Innovation Happens; The Rise of Ecosystems; Breaking Up Monoliths; Linux and Open Source Had Arrived; Chapter 2: From "Free" to "Open Source"; Words Can Matter; Why Free; The Coining of "Open Source"; Pragmatism and Commercialism; How Open Source Licensing Works; Do You Have to Give Back or Not?; Protecting the Commons Seeing Through the Copyleft MirePermissive Licenses Gain; Driving Participation Is the Key; Maintaining Open Source Compliance; Putting Controls in Place; What Are Your Policies?; An Ongoing Process; Projects versus Products; Upstream and Downstream; Projects and Products Depend on Each Other; What Support Means; Reducing Risk; The Intersection of Security and Risk; Securing Open Source; Business as Usual: Patches and Advice; Does Code Help the Bad Guys?; Or Is "Many Eyes" the Secret Sauce?; Thinking Differently About Risk; Participating in Open Source Projects Starting an Open Source ProjectDoubling Down an Existing Open Source Project; Creating an Open Source Program Office; The Water Is Fine; Chapter 3: Open Source Development Model; Open Source Is About Development; Central versus Distributed Control; Differing Open Source Approaches; A Caveat; Models for Governing Projects; Who Decides?; Benevolent Dictator for Life; Meritocracy; Consensus; What Are the Principles?; Open First; Separating Technical and Business Decisions; Best Practices for Setting Goals; Who Is in the Community?; Leaders; Maintainers; Committers; Contributors Why You Should Think About More Than CodersUsers Get Involved; Users Become Contributors; How to Encourage New Contributors; Holding Onto Control: An Anti-Pattern; Reducing the Friction of Tools; Mentoring; The Importance of Culture; Steps to Maintain a Community; Quick Responses; Documentation: An Easy On-Ramp; Modular Beats Monoliths; Communicate, Communicate, Communicate; The Limits of Being Together; Best Practices for Distributed Teams; It's About People; The Limits of Vir tual; Determine If You're Successful; Measuring Something Changes It; What Actually Matters?
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Apress
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 005.3; Computer science; Open source software; COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / General; Computer programming; Computers -- Programming -- Open Source; Computer programming / software development; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781484238943
• Related ISBNs: 148423894X; 9781484238936; 1484238931
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 27, 2018).
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