Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

>The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond Had reddit :) That reminds me about the book: Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/ It is free to read at the above link. I had read many of the chapters some years ago. Pretty interesting stuff. It consists of multiple chapters, each written by different well-known people associated with prominent projects from the open source movement, at a time when it was relatively new (1999). The paragraphs that I remember the most from it are from this chapter: Future of Cygnus Solutions An Entrepreneur's Account Michael Tiemann (Cygnus Solutions was a company which initially ported and improved GCC and its toolchain to multiple Unix platforms, and made a business out of it, before open source was a gleam in many people's eyes. They did well and were acquired by Red Hat some years later.) Here are the paragraphs: [ Again, a quote from the GNU Manifesto: There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive. But the means customary in the field of software today are based on destruction.…