Open Sources 2.0

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."

Comments

Re:Let it be Known!

[Otter]

Microsoft's complete denial of the Open Source phenomenon is almost amusing. The Apache web server has, at the time of writing, more than 50% of the web serving market according the Netcraft survey ( http://www.netcraft.com/survey). When you look at advertisements for Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) you see them tout that they own over half the market in web serving--over half the commercial server market, that is.

I believe the claim about the "commercial server market" refers to business-operated web servers, not to commercial server software. If I'm correct, "almost amusing" would be the introduction making such a silly error.

In fact, reading the introduction -- the whole thing is idiotic. It opens with an anecdote from The Double Helix that not only misspells Max Delbruck's name repeatedly but ascribes a view to Jim Watson that's contradicted by the quote they use. In general, the notion of Watson as a non-competitive sharer is preposterous to anyone who has read the book.

Tim O'Reilly has become a hypster himself

[Anonymous Coward]

Check this out, from his "blog":

And yes, Google's introduction of page rank was absolutely a milestone in this evolution of the web, but what was once an isolated stroke of genius is now being understood as one of the keys to the new paradigm. There's a set of "Web 2.0 design patterns" -- architecting systems so that they get smarter the more people use them, monetizing the long tail via a combination of customer-self service and algorithmic management, lightweight business models made possible by cooperating internet services and data syndication, data as the "intel inside", and so on.

• Web 2.0? Check - he "invented it".
  
• Paradigm? Check
  
• Monetizing? Check
  
• Long tail? Check
  
• Syndication? Check
  
• Lightweight business models? Check
  

BINGO! Errrr...I mean, BULLSHIT!

You know, he has a pretty good track record of spotting trends and then capitalizing on them by getting books out about them. And that's a good thing - he's done a valuable service and made money at the same time! But when he starts trying to create the hype himself in order to sell more books, or whatever his plans are, he can jolly well sod off, to borrow an expression from the british.

FREE reading re: OSS

[BlueRayMan]

For FREE reading re: OSS: http://opensource.mit.edu/online_papers.php

(answering my own question)

Credits:

I found the link to http://opensource.mit.edu/ on this page:

Matthias Stürmer wrote a thesis available from his site,

http://stuermer.ch/Master_Thesis.html

"Open Source Community Building" (PDF format)

http://stuermer.ch/dcs/users/1/OpenSourceCommunity Building_MStuermer.pdf (1142.9 kB)

I'm sure his server can handle the attention, judging from the few replies I got to my post. : )

Open Sources 2.0 is released under the CC

[chrisd]

See subject, O'Reilly just doesn't have it up on their site yet.