[TriLUG] Open Source book

Tim Jowers timjowers at gmail.com
Tue Aug 14 14:16:14 EDT 2007


About package add I do not mean isntalling SW is a new paradigm but choosing
from a universe of great SW at your fingertips truly is.


On 8/14/07, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Matthew,
>
> What I've seen is this:
> 1) Open Source as an original SW dev model. SMTP, FTP, other RFC-driven
> protocols and related products. Pre-dates many commercial models.
> 2) Open Source as an education void. Alot of people got involved in Linux
> in this way. better than FreeDOS I guess. :-)
> 3) Open Source as a building block. Linux really benefits from this as it
> must be solid for so many other apps.
> 4) OpenSource hero model. One guy does a great thing and it becomes widely
> accepted. Very common model.
> 5) OpenSource evolution. Forks often die. Market picks easiest to deploy.
> Many projects are started but only a few gain traction. Good ideas
> implemented in fringe language X are adopted into standard language J.
> Apache is another example of a group which subsumes ideas. As is Sun.
>
> It would be very interesting to see an in-depth analysis of some of the
> major OpenSource projects. I'm not sure the consulting model works long
> term. But OpenSource does. The models which to me seem destined for failure
> are those which somehow copyright their work or offer cripple ware. Also
> those that start a brand new project rather than contributing to others
> without a really good cause. As it is, the Project Management is  weak and
> the sense of community very limited in many projects.
>
> The HP Open Source book by Martin Fink is about how to run a computer
> company bundling Open Source. I guess only server vendors have read it. I
> thought Succeeding with Open Source was pretty good. More from an IT mgr
> perspective from what I remember.
>
> IMO, there is waning need for commercial SW for new deployments. The
> stalwarts maintain arguments like "we know how to use it", and "we are
> already using it". These are non-arguments long-term. I've used Windows,
> Office, and Windows-based software heavily over the last three months on
> this project and been very disappointed. Almost daily I encounter outright
> bugs and bad design. This weekend I was even conscribed to network a printer
> in Windows at a friend's house. They'd tried for weeks to get it working.
> Somewhere between the domains, file sharing, file sharing also needing to be
> enabled in a network applet and a registry fix I got it working. Wasting
> time with Windows really makes me appreciate the simple and superior design
> of GNU/Linux. I really, really like the package add features of Linux. This
> is like a new paradigm and sure to help OpenSource take over sooner rather
> than later.
>
> My $.02,
> TimJowers
>
>
> On 8/14/07, Kevin J. <mrkevinj at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > You can try this book: http://producingoss.com/. It is required reading
> > in the open source intro class at Clemson.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of
> > thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Matthew Sites <matthew at computermc.com>
> > To: trilug at trilug.org
> > Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 2:34:32 PM
> > Subject: [TriLUG] Open Source book
> >
> > Does anyone know of a good book that explains the open source model
> > and why it works?
> >
> > -Matthew
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