LinuxValue: Russell Pavlicek on the Sanity of Open Source Development

“If you’re in the trenches trying to convince your IT executives
to move some key business applications to Linux and open source
software, you might quietly drop a copy of Russell C. Pavlicek’s
book on their chair. Embracing Insanity: Open Source Software
Development provides a sprightly written, non-technical account of
where the open source movement comes from, what motivates its
participants, and what fuels the movement. However, the book isn’t
just about the folklore of open source. It’s really an argument for
the business realities–pro and con–that underlie this
movement.

“Pavlicek definitely knows his way around the open source
community. He spent several years as Compaq Corp.’s Linux
evangelist for professional services, has spoken on the topic of
Linux in business for more than 20 venues since 2000, and wrote a
column for InfoWorld for several years about Open Source. For the
past four years, Pavlicek has been a weekly panelist on The Linux
Show Webcast.

“Pavlicek graciously took a moment to give an update on many of
the issues he discusses in his book…”

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