Front Cover -- Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Open Source: A Different Way of Doing Business -- Innovation Happens Elsewhere -- Jumping In -- Understanding Open Source -- Communities -- Who This Book Is Intended For -- Open Source as Business Strategy -- Chapter 2. Innovation Happens Elsewhere -- Open Source Is a Commons -- Can the Commons Make a Difference? -- The Commons and Software -- Open versus Closed -- Use of the Commons: Creativity and Conversations -- Innovation Happens Elsewhere -- Chapter 3. What Is Open Source? -- Open Source in Brief -- Philosophical Tenets of Open Source -- Open Source and Agile Methodologies -- Common Open-Source Myths, Misconceptions, and Questions -- Open Source and Community -- The Secret of Why Open Source Works -- Variations on Open Source: Gated Communities and Internal Open Source -- Open Source: Why Do They Do It? -- What Is Open Source? -- Chapter 4. Why Consider Open Source? -- Business Reasons for Choosing to Open Source Your Code -- Creating Your Business Model and Following Through with It -- Measuring Success -- An Example: The Innovation Happens Hsewhere Strategy -- Business Reasons for Using Open-Source Products -- Why Consider Open Source? -- Chapter 5. Licenses -- What a License Does -- What a License Does Not Do -- More on Copyright … -- … And a Quick Word on Patents -- The Licenses -- Dual Licensing -- Supplementing the License-Contributor Agreements -- Licenses for Documentation -- Licenses -- Chapter 6. How To Do Open-Source Development -- The Infrastructure Needed for an Open-Source Project -- Software Life Cycle -- Building a Community -- Ending an Open-Source Project -- Joining an Existing Open-Source Project -- Open Source within a Company.

How to Do Open-Source Development -- Chapter 7. Going with Open Source -- Deciding to Do Open Source -- How to Prepare to Do Open Source at Your Company -- Getting Approval from Your Company -- Problems You Can Expect to Encounter -- Going with Open Source -- Chapter 8. How To Build Momentum -- Marketing Your Project -- Focus on Your Users and Contributors -- Community Outreach -- Harvesting Innovation -- Welcome the Unexpected -- Chapter 9. What To Avoid-Known Problems and Failures -- Not Understanding Open Source -- Don't Needlessly Duplicate an Existing Effort -- Licensing Issues -- Design Issues -- Code Issues -- Trying to Control Too Much -- Marketing Issues -- Tension between an Open-Source Project and the Rest of Your Company -- Community Issues -- Lack of Resources -- Recovering from Mistakes -- Chapter 10. Closing Thoughts -- Appendix A. Resources -- Further Reading -- Websites of Interest -- Tools -- Licenses -- Appendix B. Licenses -- Apache Software License -- Artistic License -- Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) -- FreeBSD Documentation License -- GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) -- GNU General Public License (GPL) -- GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) -- IBM Common Public License (CPL) -- Microsoft Shared Source License for CLI, C# and JScript -- Microsoft Shared Source License for Windows CE.Net -- MIT or X License -- Mozilla Public License (MPL) -- Open Publication License -- Sun Community Source License (SCSL) -- Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL) -- Sun Public Documentation License (PDL) -- Appendix C. Contributor Agreements -- Apache Contributor Agreement -- Free Software Foundation Copyright Assignment Form -- Mozilla Contributor Assignment -- OpenOffice.org Contributor Assignment -- Project JXTA Contributor Assignment -- Appendix D. Codename Spinnaker -- Bibliography -- Index.

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