is a collection of essays written by leaders of the open source movement.
The essays, which are in HTML format, make up the entire text of the book "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution" by O'Reilly.
The essays include: "A Brief History of Hackerdom", "Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT and T-Owned to Freely Redistributable", "The Internet Engineering Task Force", "The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement", "Future of Cygnus Solutions: An Entrepreneur's Account", "Software Engineering", "The Linux Edge", "Giving It Away: How Red Hat Software Stumbled Across a New Economic Model and Helped Improve an Industry", "Diligence, Patience, and Humility", "Open Source as a Business Strategy", "The Open Source Definition", "Hardware, Software, and Infoware", "Freeing the Source: The Story of Mozilla", "The Revenge of the Hackers", "The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate", and "The Open Source Definition".
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