Description: While the book is quite interesting, it is not well organized, and trails off at the end like an unfinished term paper. Raymond has become the spokesperson for the OSI (Open Source Initiative) and is now its president. The problem is that many of his arguments don't even stand up within the Open Source Community, let alone in the software world at large. While Open Source has been effective in creating a compelling OS as an academic endeavor, now that Open Source has gone "commercial", the arguments no longer hold water. Even within the Open Source community many people are refusing to release their source code. This concept of development worked fine while students and enthusiasts were working collaboritvely on the Linux OS, but it will be interesting to see how this holds up as the community goes out and attempts to make money on their works. Open Source development only seems to work as long as those contributing don't intent to commercialize their offerings. None-the-less this book ..
ISBN:
0596001088
Release Date:
15 January, 2001
List Price:
$11.87
Author:
Eric S. Raymond
Publisher:
O'Reilly & Associates
Last Updated:
06/26/2003
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