This book is a bit dated in comparison to changes that have taken place and the acceptability Open Source Software has garnered over the last five to six years. Of course, the examples used may not be all relevant to the current context. For example, the lack of software project management practices are actually gone. We see more accurate and much more well thoughtout design documents in many open source implementations. There has been large number of companies who have started to contribute to open source in a bigger way. It will be probably hard to imagine a company today can shut its eye to open source.
What do we learn from this book?
This book is about vision as seen by almost big names in the open source community. All have there unique outlook for open source. Some do it because they believed in the cause, some out of frustration and some may have seen a business need to accept it. It's a place where people having variety of interests have come in to create a community of "Diligence, Patience, and Humility" while preserving "laziness, impatience, and hubris" of individuals as Larry Wall has put it.
An interesting read to understand various facets of one of the neo-technology movements of our times.
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