The cathedral and the bazaar : musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary / Eric S. Raymond ; with a foreword by Bob Young. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raymond, Eric S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linux.

Operating systems (Computers).

Computer software--Development.

Computer software.

Hackers.

Operating systems (Computers)--Development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 268 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Cathedral and the bazaar

Place of Publication:

Beijing ; Cambridge, [Mass.] : O'Reilly, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The leading challenger to Microsoft's stranglehold on the computer industry is an operating system called Linux, the product of thousands of volunteer programmers who collaborate over the Internet. The software behind a majority of all the world's web sites doesn't come from a big company either, but from a loosely coordinated group of volunteer programmers called the Apache Group. The Internet itself, and much of its core software, was developed through a process of networked collaboration.".

"The key to these successes is a movement that has come to be called open source, because it depends on the ability of programmers to freely share their program source code so that others can improve it. In 1997, Eric S. Raymond outlined the core principles of this movement in a manifesto called The Cathedral and the Bazaar, which was published and freely redistributed over the Internet."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Why You Should Care

A Brief History of Hackerdom

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Homesteading the Noosphere

The Magic Cauldron

The Revenge of the Hackers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-268).

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-56592-875-X