Open Sources 2.0 is a collection of insightful and
thought-provoking essays from today's technology leaders that
continues painting the evolutionary picture that developed in

These essays explore open source's impact on the software
industry and reveal how open source concepts are infiltrating
other areas of commerce and society. The essays appeal to a
broad audience: the software developer will find thoughtful
reflections on practices and methodology from leading open
source developers like Jeremy Allison and Ben Laurie, while
the business executive will find analyses of business
strategies from the likes of Sleepycat co-founder and CEO
Michael Olson and Open Source Business Conference founder Matt

From China, Europe, India, and Brazil we get essays that
describe the developing world's efforts to join the technology
forefront and use open source to take control of its high tech
destiny. For anyone with a strong interest in technology

The enduring significance of open source goes well beyond high
technology, however. At the heart of the new paradigm is
network-enabled distributed collaboration: the growing impact
of this model on all forms of online collaboration is

What does the future hold? Veteran open source commentators
Tim O'Reilly and Doc Searls offer their perspectives, as do
leading open source scholars Steven Weber and Sonali Shah.
Andrew Hessel traces the migration of open source ideas from
computer technology to biotechnology, and Wikipedia co-founder
Larry Sanger and Slashdot co-founder Jeff Bates provide
frontline views of functioning, flourishing online

The power of collaboration, enabled by the internet and open
source software, is changing the world in ways we can only
begin to imagine.Open Sources 2.0 further develops the
evolutionary picture that emerged in the original Open Sources
and expounds on the transformative open source philosophy.


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