Innovation Happens Elsewhere
Open Source as Business Strategy

How to develop software with open source techiques?from renowned engineers

Ron Goldman (Author), Richard P. Gabriel (Author), Chris Meyer (Foreword by)

9781558608894, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 25 April 2005

432 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.8 cm, 1.01 kg

"Innovation Happens Elsewhere is at least as important for those who have no interest in software as those who do, because in the details of the history and practice of the open source community lie clues to the institutional adaptations of the information economy; in the clauses of the various software licenses lie the case law that will come to define property in the information age. There are other books that have a great deal to say about this evolution, but none combines the personal experience and inside-out insight to be gained from the engagement of Ron Goldman and Richard Gabriel in so many flesh-and-blood open source projects and the development of the structures that have supported them." --from the foreword by Chris Meyer, Monitor Group

It's a plain fact: regardless of how smart, creative, and innovative your organization is, there are more smart, creative, and innovative people outside your organization than inside. Open source offers the possibility of bringing more innovation into your business by building a creative community that reaches beyond the barriers of the business. The key is developing a web-driven community where new types of collaboration and creativity can flourish. Since 1998 Ron Goldman and Richard Gabriel have been helping groups at Sun Microsystems understand open source and advising them on how to build successful communities around open source projects. In this book the authors present lessons learned from their own experiences with open source, as well as those from other well-known projects such as Linux, Apache, and Mozilla.

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Innovation Happens Elsewhere
What is Open Source?
Why Consider Open Source?
Licenses
How to Do Open Source Development
Going with Open Source
How to Build Momentum
What to Avoid—Known Problems and Failures
Closing Thoughts
Appendix A: Resources
B: Licenses
C: Contributor Agreements
D: Article from XML.com

Subject Areas: Software Engineering [UMZ], Enterprise software [UFL]