Book Review- The Success of Open Source

Steven Weber’s “The Success of Open Source” was written from the view of a political scientist and dealt more with the community around open source than the products themselves. Weber examines the history of the open source movement early on in the book giving a good overview and history of some of the major movements in open source. While well written, the history of the open source movement wasn’t the key portion of the book in my mind. He looks in depth at the way the open source community is run and governed, as well as some of the legal …read more