Learn how free software became open source and how you can sell open source software. This book provides a historical context of how open source has thoroughly

Freely available source code, with contributions from thousands of programmers around the world: this is the spirit of the software revolution known as Open Sou

Providing project and community examples, this book provides a historical context of how open source has thoroughly transformed how we write software, how we co

The book wraps up with a look at the legal effects--both positive and negative--of open source/free software licensing.

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