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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 aa 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.
Ron Goldman is a software developer and researcher at Sun Microsystems Laboratories in California.
Richard P. Gabriel is a computer scientist and poet. He is the author of three books and lives in California. Dr. Gabriel is the recipient of the 2004 ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award for his work on programming languages and software design and their relation to other disciplines.
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