Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy (E-Book)

It's a plain fact: regardless of how smart, creative, and innovative your organization is, there are more smart, creative, and innovative people outside your organization than inside. Open source offers the possibility of bringing more innovation into your business by building a creative community that reaches beyond the barriers of the business. The key is developing a web-driven community where new types of collaboration and creativity can flourish. Since 1998 Ron Goldman and Richard Gabriel have been helping groups at Sun Microsystems understand open source and advising them on how to build successful communities around open source projects.


In this book the authors present lessons learned from their own experiences with open source, as well as those from other well-known projects such as Linux, Apache, and Mozilla.

This book is intended for anyone considering using Open Source. It describes what open source is, discusses business reasons for using open source, and describes how an open source project works in a day-to-day manner. It will help you decide on whether open source is right for your project, and, if so, what steps you should take to proceed and some mistakes you should avoid.

• Winner of 2006 Jolt Productivity Award for General Books

• Describes how open source development works and offers persuasive reasons for  using it to help achieve business goals.

• Shows how to use open source in day-to-day work, discusses the various licenses in use, and describes what makes for a successful project.

• Written in an engaging style for executives, managers, and engineers that addresses the human and business issues involved in open source development as well as its history, philosophy, and future.

A version of this Book is made available by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
This online version is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Some rights reserved.

 

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Some Acronyms/Abbreviations/Jargon that every Linux/FOSS user should know

Here is a list of some of the most common and ubiquitous Acronyms/Abbreviations/Jargon of Linux/FOSS that every Linux/FOSS user should know.

01. APT- Advanced Package Tool
02. BSD – Berkeley Software Distribution
03. bash – Bourne again shell
04. cc - C compiler
05. csh – C shell
06. FOSS - Free and Open Source Software
07. GIMP – GNU Image Manipulation Program
08. GNU - GNU is Not UNIX
09. GNOME – Gnu Network Object Modeling Environment
10. GTK - GIMP Toolkit
11. GPL – GNU General Public License
12. grep - Global regular expression print
13. GCC - GNU C Compiler
14. Grub- Grand Unified Bootloader
15. ksh – Korn shell
17. KDE – K Desktop Environment
18. LILO - Linux Loader
19. LINUX – Linus Torvald’s UNIX  ;Linux Is Not Unix; Linus’s MINIX
20. LUG – Linux users group
21. LFS - Linux From Scratch
22. lex - Lexical analyser
23. MD5 – Message digest 5
24. man - Manual
25. POSIX – Portable operating system interface
26. pwd – Print working directory
27. RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer
28. RPM – Red Hat package manager
29. sed - Stream editor
30. SUSE – Software- und System-Entwicklung(Software and system development)
31. tar – Tape archive
32. telnet - Terminal over network
33. UNIX - UNIpleX information and computer services
34. VimVi - Improved
35. WINE - WINE is not an emulator
36. X – X Window System
37. YaST - Yet another Setup Tool
38. yacc – Yet another compiler compiler

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Now Obtain a Master Degree in FOSS (India Only)

Anna University, Chennai, India have recently launched a  new two-year online distance education programme, students can pursue an M.Sc in FOSS. This programme is the only degree from a leading Indian technology-focused university that’s specifically being awarded for studies in FOSS.

In the process of becoming a computer science professional through this programme, one also masters a wide range of products, tools, technologies and approaches thrown up by the FOSS movement. Moreover, it is the only such programme from a leading Indian tech university delivered entirely online.

It has the benefits of flexible interactive learning unconstrained by geographical limitations and is specially suited for those who are already working.

Here is the official advertisement of the announcement for the first batch for MSc (CS-FOSS). MSc (CS-FOSS) is a four semster course available for all Engineering and Science graduates with atleast one subject of Mathematics for one year. Admissions will be done twice a year, every year.

Details about curricula are available here.

Last date for the submission of the application for the first batch is April 09, 2012.

The Fee Structure is,

Payable at the time of admission

i. Rs.29, 500/- (for candidates whose Bachelor Degree is from a University in Tamil Nadu).

ii. Rs.30, 000/- (for candidates whose Bachelor Degree is from a University outside Tamil Nadu)

Payable every Semester (From Second Semester to Final Semester)

Rs. 25,000/- per Semester.

1st of March and 1st of September will be the date of commencement for collection of fee for the Semester concerned.

Interested candidates can apply online from here.

Get ready to become a FOSS Scholar :)

 

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