Open Sources 2.0 is a collection of essays and in-depth thinking of today's technology leaders that continues painting the picture of evolution that developed in the 1999 book Open Sources: Voices from the Revolution. This essay explores the impact of open source software industry and reveal how open source concepts infiltrating other areas of trade and public. The essays appeal to a broad audience: software developers will find thoughtful reflections on practices and methodology from leading open source developers like Jeremy Allison and Ben Laurie, while business executives will find the analysis of business strategies from the likes of Sleepycat co-founder and CEO Michael Olson and Open Source Business Conference founder Matt Asay. From China, Europe, India, and Brazil we get essays that describe the efforts of developing countries to join the technology forefront and use open source to control the fate of high-tech. Veteran open source commentators Tim O'Reilly and Doc Searls offer their perspectives, as do leading open source scholars Steven Weber and Sonali Shah. Andrew Hessel traces the migration open source ideas from computer technology to biotechnology, and Wikipedia founder Larry Sanger and Slashdot co-founder Jeff Bates provide views lance work, developing an online collaborative community. The power of collaboration, enabled by the Internet and open source software, is changing the world in ways we can only begin to imagine the philosophy of Open. Sources 2.0 further develops the evolution of the image that appears in the original Open Sources and expounds on the transformative open source. "This is a wonderful collection of thoughts and examples by great minds of the free software movement, and is a must have for anyone who follows free software development and project history." - Robin Monks, Free Software Magazine List of contributors including Sharma Alolita Andrew Hessel Ben Laurie Boon-Lock Yeo, Bruno Souza, Chris DiBona Danese Cooper Doc Searls Kim Eugene Gregorio Robles Ian Murdock Jesus Jeff Bates Jeremy Allison M.