Pissing in the
well—Tim O'Reilly weighs in on the amazon.com 1-Click patent issue
and provides a model for sustainable Web development. Sign O'Reilly's
Open Letter to Amazon and
register your protest.
Forbes magazine reporter Daniel Lyons tarred open-source software in
a column titled Bitter Brew. What did he get in exchange? A vigorous rebuttal
from Tim O'Reilly.
Open Source Software is changing the nature of the software industry, but
how do you find the right books to guide the way? We've just published an
updated version of the ever-popular O'Reilly Open
Source Bibliography. It lists the very best books, including those
by other publishers.
Introducing Apache—Rael Dornfest, programmer for
The O'Reilly Network, begins a
series of articles about Apache, the world's most popular Web server.
Beginning with an overview, Rael will take you from installation to
domination.
Are big corporations learning the lessons of the Open Source
movement? O'Reilly Network editor Dave Simms interviews Tim
O'Reilly and Eric Raymond on the heels of the recent LinuxWorld Conference
in New York to find out.
The Unix CD
Bookshelf, 2nd Edition
[New!],
includes six bestselling books on one
CD-ROM, all for $69.95. The CD contains UNIX in a Nutshell: 3rd
Edition; UNIX Power Tools, 2nd Edition
(with software); Learning the UNIX Operating System, 4th Edition;
Learning the vi Editor, 6th Edition; sed & awk, 2nd
Edition; and Learning the Korn Shell, AND a bonus hard-copy
book, UNIX in a Nutshell: 3rd Edition.
Th
e Caldera v. Microsoft Dossier—Is the case closed? Andrew
Schulman, consulting expert to Caldera during the lawsuit, will guide you
through the case and the online documents. This story broke on The O'Reilly Network, the
source for open and emerging technologies.
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A Perl Hacker in the Land of
Python—Byte.com columnist Jon Udell, author of
Practical Internet
Groupware, finds some interesting parallels and distinctions
between the two languages and their respective cultures.
We recently got the latest word on PHP in an
interview with
PHP's creator, Rasmus Lerdorf, who is the author of the
PHP Pocket
Reference.
Zope
Fever—Jon Udell, author of
Practical Internet
Groupware, has caught the Zope bug. But what's Zope? It may well be
the best platform available for building collaborative Web-based software.
Didn't make it to the Eighth Annual Python Conference in Washington D.C.? Don't
miss O'Reilly editor in Chief Frank Willison daily conference dispatches. You
can find them here:
day 1,
day 2,
day 3.
Debunking Open-Source Myths: Origins and
Players—The Gartner Group, a major research firm for Fortune 1000
companies, concludes that organizations that exclude OSS should think again.
