''Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution'' is a book published by

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. It is an

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s written by luminaries of the

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and

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s. The essays variously chronicle aspects of free software history, describe various philosophical positions, or sketch groups important to the movements. The book is edited by

Chris DiBona Chris DiBona ('cdibona', born October 1971) is the former director of open source at Google from August 2004Di ...

, Sam Ockman and Mark Stone. The essays contained were written by:

Chris DiBona Chris DiBona ('cdibona', born October 1971) is the former director of open source at Google from August 2004Di ...

, Sam Ockman, Mark Stone,

Brian Behlendorf Brian Behlendorf (born March 30, 1973) is an American technologist, executive, computer programmer and leading figure in the open-source software movement. He was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software ...

Scott Bradner Scott Bradner is a senior figure in the area of Internet governance. He served as the secretary to the Internet Society from 2003-2016 and was formerly a trustee. He was on the board of American Registry for Internet Numbers, ARIN, the North Amer ...

, Jim Hamerly,

Marshall Kirk McKusick Marshall Kirk McKusick (born January 19, 1954) is an American computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD UNIX, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. He served on the board of the USENIX Association from 1986 to 1992 and aga ...

Tim O'Reilly Timothy O'Reilly (born 6 June 1954) is an Irish-American author and publisher, who is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates). He popularised the terms open source and Web 2.0. Education and early life Born in County Co ...

, Tom Paquin,

Bruce Perens Bruce Perens (born around 1958) is an American computer programmer and advocate in the free software movement. He created ''The Open Source Definition'' and published the first formal announcement and manifesto of open source. He co-founded the ...

Eric Raymond The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, Eirik, or Eiríkur is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Nor ...

Richard Stallman Richard Matthew Stallman ( ; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to ...

Michael Tiemann Michael Tiemann is an American software developer and executive, serving as vice president of open source affairs at Red Hat, Inc., and former President of the Open Source Initiative. Biography He earned a bachelor's degree from the Moore Schoo ...

Linus Torvalds Linus Benedict Torvalds ( , ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. He also created the distributed version control system Git. He was honored, along with Shinya Yam ...

Paul Vixie Paul Vixie is an American computer scientist whose technical contributions include Domain Name System (DNS) protocol design and procedure, mechanisms to achieve operational robustness of DNS implementations, and significant contributions to open s ...

Larry Wall Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is an American computer programmer, linguist, and author known for creating the Perl programming language and the patch tool. Early life and education Wall grew up in Los Angeles and Bremerton, Wash ...

, and Bob Young. The book is open source itself, published under a

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. Printed copies can be purchased, but the book is also available in its entirety for free online reading at the publisher's web site. Its sequel is similarly licensed, and has been made available through

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. ''Open Sources'' has been required or recommended reading for a number of

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courses.

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