Memoirs from the Revolution
It's not possible to talk about the basics of the Web without discussing Open Source software. Over the past year, Open Source has grabbed attention with a flurry of headlines. Netscape has released the source code to Mozilla, IBM supports Apache, major database vendors have ported their products to Linux, and Microsoft leaks the Halloween document. Suddenly, Open Source is recognized as a viable mainstream alternative to commercial software.
In Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, leaders of Open Source come together in print for the first time to discuss a new vision of the software industry they've created. The book explains why the majority of the Internet's servers use Open Source technologies for everything from the operating system to Web serving and email.
The contributors are the leaders in the Open Source arena, including Brian Behlendorf (Apache), Kirk McKusick (Berkeley UNIX), Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly & Associates), Bruce Perens (Debian Project, Open Source Initiative), Tom Paquin and Jim Hamerly (mozilla.org, Netscape), Eric Raymond (Open Source Initiative), Richard Stallman (GNU, Free Software Foundation, Emacs), Michael Tiemann (Cygnus Solutions), Linus Torvalds
(Linux), Paul Vixie (Bind), Larry Wall (Perl), and Bob Young (Red Hat).
The essays in this book, which was edited by Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, and Mark Stone, show how the Open Source movement works, why it succeeds, and where it is going.
