Book Report: "Open Sources"
"Voices from the Open Source Revolution" 

edited by:   Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman & Mark Stone

a compilation of articles from some of the  leaders of the current
"Open Source" community (people such as: 
Paule Vixie(BIND), Larry Wall(Perl), Bob Young(RedHat), Linus Torvalds(Linux),
Tim O'Reily (O'Reilly books), Richard Stallman(GNU), Michael Tiemann(Cygnus),
Brian Behlendorf(Apache), Scott Bradner(IETF), Jim Hamerly(Netscape)

copyright: 1999       ISBN: 1-56592-582-3  Price: $24.95 (US)
published by: O'Reilly    261 pages
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There isn't much that I can say here about subject matter other than to say if
you are at all interested in the "Open Source" movement (including GNU & Linux
& Apache), then you should be reading this book, and both understading as well
as 'buying-into' the strategies & philosophies in this book.

I was fairly well 'up' on the movement, I've used Gnu Tools for years and Linux
for the better part of 2 1/2 years now, so I felt I was pretty well tuned in.

However, there's a lot more to the open-source-movement than meets the eye,
and the articles by the people from Netscape, Apache & others were really
impressive in their depth & coverage of things that I wasn't all that up-to-
speed on.

Please try to get yourself a copy, and remember we owe the success of the 
GSD Operation to the Gnu Tools - especially their compiler.  We should be
supporting Gnu specifically, and the Open Source movement in general, as we
certainly take advantage of their activies. 

bill (27 November 1999)...