Code4Lib Journal (Dec 2007)

BOOK REVIEW: The Success of Open Source by Steven Weber

  • Eric Lease Morgan

Journal volume & issue
no. 1
p. 30

Abstract

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The Success of Open Source by Steven Weber details the history, process, motivations, and possible long-term effects of open source software (OSS). Weber’s book can be used as a set of guidelines – a description of a framework – for building software solutions for the computing problems facing libraries.