Open Source

Fadi P. Deek received his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He is Dean of the College of Science and Liberal Arts and Professor of Information Systems, Information Technology, and Mathematical Sciences at NJIT, where he began his academic career as a Teaching Assistant in 1985. He is also a member of the Graduate Faculty - Rutgers University Ph.D. Program in Management. James A. M. McHugh received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. During the course of his career, he has been a member of technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories (Wave Propagation Laboratory), Director of the Ph.D. program in computer science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Acting Chair of Computer and Information Science Department at NJIT, and Director of the Program in Information Technology. He is currently a tenured Full Professor in the Computer Science Department at NJIT.

• 1. Introduction; Part I. Open Source - Internet Infrastructure, Platforms, and Technologies: 2. Open source Internet application projects; 3. The open source platform; 4. Technologies underlying open source development; Part II. Social, Psychological, Legal, and Economic Aspects of Open Source: 5. Demographics, sociology, and psychology of open source development; 6. Legal issues in open source; 7. The economics of open source; Part III. Free Software: The Movement, the Public Sector, and the Future: 8. The GNU project and the free software foundation; 9. Open source in the public sector; 10. The future of the open source movement.

'Provide[s] a well laid out review of the open source movement, including its technologies, policies, and impact and implications. … Overall, this book ties together the many interlocking pieces within the development and history of the open source movement.' A. Hollister, CHOICE