Innovation Happens Elsewhere : Open Source as Business Strategy

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.