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List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $11.97 You Save: $7.98 (40%) Hardcover - 288 pages 1 edition (October 1999) O'Reilly & Associates , Dimensions: (in inches): 1.14 x 8.84 x 5.85 The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (O'Reilly Linux) By Eric S. Raymond "This is how we did it." says Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel. It all started with a series of odd statistics. 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 stunning 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. The rush to capitalize on the idea of open source started with Netscape's decision to release its flagship Netscape Navigator product under open source licensing terms in early 1998. Before long, Fortune 500 companies like Intel, IBM, and Oracle were joining the party. By August 1999, when the leading Linux distributor, Red Hat Software, made its hugely successful public stock offering, it had become clear that open source was "the next big thing" in the computer industry. This revolutionary book starts out with A Brief History of Hackerdom-the historical roots of the open-source movement-and details the events that led to the recognition of the power of open source. It contains the full text of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, updated and expanded for this book, plus Mr. Raymond's other key essays on the social and economic dynamics of open-source software development. Eric S. Raymond says: "I hope you'll share my journey of discovery This book explains how I learned that most of what I thought I knew about software development was wrong -- and how we can build programs that actually attain the kind of reliability that is normal in other branches of engineering." Good reading, and an excellent gift for the internet fan. Keywords: Business: Marketing, eCommerce, Office management, promotion, security (Business), - 11/27/99