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M2 PRESSWIRE-January 10, 2006-O'REILLY: Source is everything-- the continuing evolution; O'Reilly releases "Open Sources 2.0" (C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
Farnham, UK - When the original "Open Sources: Voices from the Revolution" was published in 1999, Eric. S. Raymond noted that the Internet "has even brought hacker culture to the beginnings of mainstream respectability and clout." A half-decade later, open source has grown far beyond the mainstream, observes Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource, in her foreword to "Open Sources 2.0" (DiBona, Cooper, and Stone, O'Reilly). "It has become the bedrock over which the mainstream flows. Today it is hard to find a Fortune 500 company with an IT infrastructure that does not depend, in some fundamental way, on open source software."
"Open source has become the infrastructure of the Internet and every application running on it," agrees Chris DiBona, editor and contributor to "Open Sources 2.0": "Understanding it is important for everyone who is on the Internet." DiBona and coeditors Danese Cooper and Mark Stone present a collection of thought-provoking essays from today's technology leaders. These essays explore open source's impact on the software...