By Ron Goldman

It is a undeniable truth: despite how clever, artistic, and leading edge your company is, there are extra clever, inventive, and leading edge humans outdoors your company than inside of. Open resource deals the potential of bringing extra innovation into your small business by means of construction an artistic neighborhood that reaches past the boundaries of the enterprise. the secret is constructing a web-driven group the place new forms of collaboration and creativity can flourish. on the grounds that 1998 Ron Goldman and Richard Gabriel were supporting teams at sunlight Microsystems comprehend open resource and advising them on the way to construct profitable groups round open resource tasks. during this e-book the authors current classes discovered from their very own reports with open resource, in addition to these from different recognized initiatives akin to Linux, Apache, and Mozilla.

* Winner of 2006 Jolt productiveness Award for common Books
* Describes how open resource improvement works and provides persuasive purposes for utilizing it to aid in attaining company goals.
* exhibits easy methods to use open resource in daily paintings, discusses a number of the licenses in use, and describes what makes for a winning project.
* Written in a fascinating sort for executives, managers, and engineers that addresses the human and company matters taken with open resource improvement in addition to its heritage, philosophy, and destiny

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