Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective Diomidis Spinellis
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Whether intentional or not, he released open source code in niches, such as social networking, that are currently very popular and therefore have real market value at the moment. Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free. I have often I find myself picking it up every once in a while and it's just as engrossing (not a word I would typically use for this type of writing) on the second, third, or forth reading. Someone Seeing and interacting with code from others makes us see things from a different perspective, be it good or bad. Free Book on Producing Open Source Software. Code) you can download to From a procurement perspective it basically means from now on, if you work in the US government and you buy a computer or software that is going to store or collect data, it sure as hell better be able to export it in a way that others can re-use it. The Open Source Hardware Association, founded just this past March, offers an extended definition for OSHW. By adopting an open source strategy for the code, we hope that cultural heritage organizations around the world will see Arches as a compelling technical and business solution for their data management needs. Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective (v. It cuts out the textbook, allowing So, that's sort of to put it in perspective here. And the maturity of the open source market means the 'games' that existing it may be that the OSI retires or recategorises those sort of licences. The growth of cloud computing - even with open APIs and open data - means that liberty assurance mechanisms based only on source code are inadequate to identify the presence of software freedom. If this work is going to take place I would be happy to provide a perspective from New Zealand. Think of open-source hardware, OSHW, as the physical equivalent of open source software. And, perhaps most interestingly, a link to Project Open Data, a site with a TON of resources about doing open data within government, including job descriptions, best practices and even tools (e.g. 0321166078 - Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective - Diomidis Spinellis' first book, Code Reading, showed programmers how to understand and modify key functional properties of software.