Like Eric Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Free for All outlines the arguments for leaving software source code open and free for anyone to tinker with. As big names like IBM and Dell court the largely volunteer community, and companies like Red Hat produce stock-option millionaires, uncomfortable questions ar
| Title | : | Free for All: How LINUX and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.58 (711 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0066620503 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 340Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-7-25 |
| Language | : | English |
Like Eric Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Free for All outlines the arguments for leaving software source code open and free for anyone to tinker with. As big names like IBM and Dell court the largely volunteer community, and companies like Red Hat produce stock-option millionaires, uncomfortable questions arise. "Getting people to join together for the group is easy to do when no one is getting rich," says Wayner. Can you get rich selling free software? It's a question that's got Wall Street excited, computer makers curious, and Bill Gates nervous. Each has a different vision of what it means to collaborate on software development, and their clashes over the "rules" of a largely unregulated process have created fault lines that run deep. In the meantime, Free for All offers as thorough and engaging an account of the open-source movemen
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