Packt: Publishing the Open Source Revolution!
What is Open Source? If you don’t know then probably it has become so ubiquitous that you never pay attention to the term anymore. You’re probably using open source software and yet you don’t know it. Open source projects revolutionized the IT industry and business in general and it promise to do more in the near and the far future. At the backend of the Internet, you’ll find open source projects powering its infrastructure. From operating system like Linux, and blogging software like WordPress to online forum software like phpBB. Behind the scene, countless other small and yet important softwares are being churned out by the energetic and passionate members of the community. In many ways, the internet revolution we are seeing right now is directly caused by members of the community. Open Source, by also being free (in most cases) or low cost has made technology available to more people.
How would open source affect your business?
Businesses have to embrace technology and make use of it to further their growth and thrive in the new world. Open source has a very tantalizing proposition for those who can tame it, free and community supported good quality software. Tell me what is better than free software that is supported by thousand of software enthusiast all over the world.
Enter Packt Publishing and Books on Open Source
Packt, pronounced as packed, is a big supporter of open source. From the first book it published in 2004, Packt has been supporting the open source community by publishing books on open source projects. Books on Joomla, Drupal, Moodle, Xen and AsteriskNow, just to name a few, are available thanks to their support. In addition, Packt, according to their website, pays a royalty directly to the open source project whenever they sell a book written about the project. As a result, open source projects receive not just publicity but monetary support helping sustain the people running the projects in some ways.
Community. Experience. Distilled.
These are the three words that sums up what Packt and their book is all about. See the quote below which is how they word it in their site.
“At Packt, we believe that these three words concisely sum us up and what our books achieve.
Community captures the online and direct nature of what we do. We support and publish books on software that have developed loyal and active online technical communities
Experience encapsulates the practical, how to knowledge that our books provide.
Distilled differentiates the quality of our professionally edited and packaged books from the free content found on the web.”
Start reading now. Grab a book at Packt Publishing and learn more about some of the best open source software around.
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