- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface: Why You Should Care
- 1. A Brief History of Hackerdom
- 2. The Cathedral and the Bazaar
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar
- The Mail Must Get Through
- The Importance of Having Users
- Release Early, Release Often
- How Many Eyeballs Tame Complexity
- When Is a Rose Not a Rose?
- Popclient becomes Fetchmail
- Fetchmail Grows Up
- A Few More Lessons from Fetchmail
- Necessary Preconditions for the Bazaar Style
- The Social Context of Open-Source Software
- On Management and the Maginot Line
- Epilog: Netscape Embraces the Bazaar
- 3. Homesteading the Noosphere
- An Introductory Contradiction
- The Varieties of Hacker Ideology
- Promiscuous Theory, Puritan Practice
- Ownership and Open Source
- Locke and Land Title
- The Hacker Milieu as Gift Culture
- The Joy of Hacking
- The Many Faces of Reputation
- Ownership Rights and Reputation Incentives
- The Problem of Ego
- The Value of Humility
- Global Implications of the Reputation-Game Model
- How Fine a Gift?
- Noospheric Property and the Ethology of Territory
- Causes of Conflict
- Project Structures and Ownership
- Conflict and Conflict Resolution
- Acculturation Mechanisms and the Link to Academia
- Gift Outcompetes Exchange
- Conclusion: From Custom to Customary Law
- Questions for Further Research
- 4. The Magic Cauldron
- Indistinguishable From Magic
- Beyond Geeks Bearing Gifts
- The Manufacturing Delusion
- The “Information Wants to be Free” Myth
- The Inverse Commons
- Reasons for Closing Source
- Use-Value Funding Models
- Why Sale Value is Problematic
- Indirect Sale-Value Models
- When to be Open, When to be Closed
- Open Source as a Strategic Weapon
- Open Source and Strategic Business Risk
- The Business Ecology of Open Source
- Coping with Success
- Open R&D and the Reinvention of Patronage
- Getting There From Here
- Conclusion: Life after the Revolution
- Afterword: Why Closing a Drivers Loses Its Vendor Money
- 5. Revenge of the Hackers
- 6. Afterword: Beyond Software?
- A. How to Become a Hacker
- B. Statistical Trends in the Fetchmail Project’s Growth
- C. Notes, Bibliography, and Acknowledgements
- Index
- Colophon
- Copyright
Dedication
To Cathy R., and Alice C., and Maya T.
All three of you know why.
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