Contents

• • Contents
  • Introduction
    • What Is Free Software and How Does It Relate to Open Source?
    • What Is Open Source Software?
    • The Dark Side of the Force
    • Use the Source, Luke
    • Innovation Through the Scientific Method
      • Innovation
    • Perils to Open Source
    • Motivating the Open Source Hacker
    • The Venture and Investment Future of Linux
    • Science and the New Renaissance
  • A Brief History of Hackerdom
    • Prologue: The Real Programmers
    • The Early Hackers
    • The Rise of Unix
    • The End of Elder Days
    • The Proprietary Unix Era
    • The Early Free Unixes
    • The Great Web Explosion
  • Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix
    • Early History
    • Early Distributions
    • VAX Unix
    • DARPA Support
    • 4.2BSD
    • 4.3BSD
    • Networking, Release 1
    • 4.3BSD-Reno
    • Networking, Release 2
    • The Lawsuit
    • 4.4BSD
    • 4.4BSD-Lite, Release 2
  • The Internet Engineering Task Force
    • The History of the IETF
    • IETF Structure and Features
    • IETF Working Groups
    • IETF Documents
    • The IETF Process
    • Open Standards, Open Documents, and Open Source
  • The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
    • The First Software-Sharing Community
    • The Collapse of the Community
    • A Stark Moral Choice
    • Free as in Freedom
    • GNU Software and the GNU System
    • Commencing the Project
    • The First Steps
    • GNU Emacs
    • Is a Program Free for Every User?
    • Copyleft and the GNU GPL
    • The Free Software Foundation
    • Free Software Support
    • Technical Goals
    • Donated Computers
    • The GNU Task List
    • The GNU Library GPL
    • Scratching an Itch?
    • Unexpected Developments
    • The GNU HURD
    • Alix
    • Linux and GNU/Linux
    • Challenges in Our Future
    • Secret Hardware
    • Non-Free Libraries
    • Software Patents
    • Free Documentation
    • We Must Talk About Freedom
    • ``Open Source''
    • Try!
  • Future of Cygnus Solutions
    • Introduction
    • Cygnus in the Early Years
    • GNUPro
    • Challenges
    • Getting Funded Beyond Open Source -- eCos
    • Reflections and Vision of the Future
  • Software Engineering
    • The Software Engineering Process
      • Marketing Requirements
      • System-Level Design
      • Detailed Design
      • Implementation
      • Integration
      • Field Testing
      • Support
    • Testing Details
      • Code Coverage Analysis
      • Regression Tests
    • Open Source Software Engineering
      • Marketing Requirements
      • System-Level Design
      • Detailed Design
      • Implementation
      • Integration
      • Field Testing
      • Support
    • Conclusions
  • The Linux Edge
    • Amiga and the Motorola Port
    • Microkernels
    • From Alpha to Portability
    • Kernel Space and User Space
    • GCC
    • Kernel Modules
    • Portability Today
    • The Future of Linux
  • Giving It Away
    • Where Did Red Hat Come From?
    • How Do You Make Money in Free Software?
    • We Are in the Commodity Product Business
    • The Strategic Appeal of This Model to the Corporate Computing Industry
    • Licensing, Open Source, or Free Software
    • The Economic Engine Behind Development of Open Source Software
    • Unique Benefits
    • The Great Unix Flaw
    • It's Your Choice
  • Diligence, Patience, and Humility
  • Open Source as a Business Strategy
    • It's All About Platforms
    • Analyzing Your Goals for an Open-Source Project
    • Evaluating the Market Need for Your Project
    • Open Source's Position in the Spectrum of Software
    • Nature Abhors a Vacuum
    • Donate, or Go It Alone?
    • Bootstrapping
    • What License to Use?
      • The BSD-Style Copyright
      • The Mozilla Public License
      • The GNU Public License
    • Tools for Launching Open Source Projects
  • The Open Source Definition
    • History
    • KDE, Qt, and Troll Tech
    • Analysis of the Open Source Definition
      • The Open Source Definition (Version 1.0)
    • Analysis of Licenses and Their Open Source Compliance
      • Public Domain
      • Free Software Licenses in General
      • The GNU General Public License
      • The GNU Library General Public License
      • The X, BSD, and Apache Licenses
      • The Artistic License
      • The Netscape Public License and the Mozilla Public License
    • Choosing a License
    • The Future
  • Hardware, Software, and Infoware
  • Freeing the Source
    • Making It Happen
    • Creating the License
    • Mozilla.org
    • Behind the Curtain
    • April Fool's Day, 1998
  • The Revenge of the Hackers
    • Beyond Brooks's Law
    • Memes and Mythmaking
    • The Road to Mountain View
    • The Origins of ``Open Source''
    • The Accidental Revolutionary
    • Phases of the Campaign
    • The Facts on the Ground
    • Into the Future
  • The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate
  • The Open Source Definition, Version 1.0
    • Table of Contents
    • GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  • Contributors