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Open Sources 2.0

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the required-reading-test-next-thursday dept.

dpilgrim writes "O'Reilly has just released a successor volume to 1999's "Open Sources", entitled "Open Sources 2.0". The table of contents reveals contributions from a number of open source luminaries, including Mozilla's Mitchell Baker, Samba's Jeremy Allison, and Sleepycat's Michael Olson. There's also an essay co-authored by Slashdot's own Jeff Bates. The sample chapter is the introduction, and includes an entertaining riff on the parallels between the open source community and the Burning Man community. This volume is edited by two of the original three editors, Chris DiBona (former Slashdot editor) and Mark Stone, together with Danese Cooper. You might want to compare this with the original "Open Sources", whose entire text can be found online."

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  1. Re:heh, comparing oss to burning man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    OSS community has sex with no one.
    Burning man community has sex with all.

  2. The book has been slashdotted... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's also an essay co-authored by Slashdot's own Jeff Bates. The sample chapter is the introduction, and includes an entertaining riff on the parallels between the open source community and the Burning Man community. This volume is edited by two of the original three editors, Chris DiBona (former Slashdot editor)

    Does this mean it's full of typoos, dupes, articles with links that don't reference the actual article, and pictures of goatse?

    And do you have to type the word in the image to read the book?

    (mind reading capcha="bullocks")

  3. Re:Burning Man? by tnk1 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Could they elaborate? I thought "Burning Man" was like the west coast version of Bonnaroo. I don't see how "hippie fests" have anything to do with developing great software. But then again, I don't like hippies.

    It's because all OSS programmers are socialist hippies.

    Duh.

    Naked bike race anyone?

  4. Re:heh, comparing oss to burning man by utnow · · Score: 2, Funny

    exactly... that's where the burning sensation comes from.

  5. Re:Burning Man? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I like hippies in direct proportion to how long ago they bathed.

    Pretty hippie-chick, not wearing a bra, carrying a bag of pot she wants to share, bathed this morning: LIKE

    Greasy hippie with 5-day beard, bathed last month before his "soul-seeking journey", not wearing shoes: DISLIKE