| After the Software Wars | |
| Author: | Keith Curtis |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Computer science |
| Publisher: | Lulu |
| Release Date: | February 20, 2009 |
| Media Type: | Print (paperback) PDF (download) |
| Pages: | 300 |
| Isbn: | 978-0-578-01189-9 |
| Oclc: | 318814794 |
After the Software Wars is a book by Keith Curtis about free software and its importance in the computing industry, specifically about its impact on Microsoft and the proprietary software development model.[1]
The book is about the power of mass collaboration and possibilities of reaching up to a singular rationale showing successful collaborative examples in open source such as Linux and Wikipedia.[2]
Keith Curtis attended the University of Michigan, but dropped out to work as a programmer for Microsoft after meeting Bill Gates in 1993. He worked there for 11 years, and then left after he found he was bored.[3]
He then wrote and self-published After the Software Wars to explain the caliber of free and open source software and why he believes Linux is technically superior to any proprietary operating system.[4]