''Open Sources 2.0'' is a book published by

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. Following on the popularity of '' Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution'', it is a second

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s written by luminaries of the

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and free software movements. The essays explore open source's impact on the software industry and reveal how open source concepts are infiltrating other areas of commerce and society. The book was edited by

Chris DiBona Chris DiBona ('cdibona', born October 1971) was the director of open source at Google from August 2004 until January of 2023. The open source team at Google oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through pro ...

, Mark Stone and

Danese Cooper Danese Cooper is an American programmer, computer scientist and advocate of open source software. Career Cooper has managed teams at Symantec and Apple Inc. For six years, she served as chief open source "evangelist" for Sun Microsystems bef ...

. The essays contained were written by Alolita Sharma, Andrew Hessel, Ben Laurie, Boon-Lock Yeo, Bruno Souza,

Doc Searls David "Doc" Searls (born July 29, 1947), is an American journalist, columnist, and a widely read blogger. He is the host of FLOSS Weekly, a free and open-source software (FLOSS) themed netcast from the TWiT Network, a co-author of ''The Cluetra ...

, Eugene Eric Kim, Gregorio Robles,

Ian Murdock Ian Ashley Murdock (April28, 1973 – December 28, 2015) was an American software engineer, known for being the founder of the Debian project and Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux company. Life and career Although Murdock's parents were ...

, Jeff Bates,

Jeremy Allison Jeremy Allison is a computer programmer known for his contributions to the free software community, notably to Samba, a re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, released under the GNU General Public License. Other contributions in ...

, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona,

Kim Polese Kim Karin Polese (born November 13, 1961) is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technology executive. She serves as Chairwoman of CrowdSmart Inc., a software products company. Polese serves on the board of the Long-term Stock Exchange and is an ...

, Larry Sanger, Louisa Liu, Mark Stone, Matthew N. Asay, Michael Olson,

Mitchell Baker Winifred Mitchell Baker (born 1957) is the Executive Chairwoman and CEO of the Mozilla Foundation and of Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, in ...

Pamela Jones Pamela Jones, commonly known as PJ, is the creator and was editor of Groklaw, a website that covered legal news of interest to the free and open-source software community. Jones is an Open Source advocate who previously trained and worked as a ...

, Robert Adkins, Russ Nelson, Sonali K. Shah, Stephen R. Walli,

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, Sunil Saxena,

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, and

Wendy Seltzer Wendy Seltzer is an American attorney and a staff member at the World Wide Web Consortium, where she is the chair of the Improving Web Advertising Business Group. She was previously with Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy. Selt ...

. The first edition was published in October 2005. The book was published under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 license.

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