Posts Tagged ‘opensource’

Open Source Life: How the open movement will change everything

Consider this: in just a few short years, the open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia has made closed-source encyclopedias obsolete -- both the hard-bound kind and the CD-ROM or commercial online kind. Goodbye World Book and Brittanica. Sure, these companies still exist, but their customer base is rapidly shrinking as more and more people would rather go with Wikipedia -- it's free, it's easy to use, and it's much, much more up-to-date. This is… Continue reading

June 18 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: life, offline, online, opensource | 50 comments»

Free Book on Producing Open Source Software

There is a book which has been just released called Producing Open Source Software. The author, Karl Fogel talks about how open source projects operate, their process, intrastructure and workflow to assist the project and social and political aspects within the project community, and communication and other technical related issues. If you are interested into open source project. This is the book to get started. If not, you can still learn a… Continue reading

November 4 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: book, Money, opensource, social | 1 comment»