Books like The open-source everything manifesto by Robert David Steele

The Lean Startup presents a systematic, scientific approach for creating and managing successful startups in uncertain environments, emphasizing rapid experimentation, customer feedback, and iterative product development.

Clayton Christensen explains why leading firms can fail when they follow the right strategy, and offers rules for exploiting disruptive innovation to avoid losing market leadership.

Reinventing Organizations explores how companies and institutions can evolve toward more sustainable, soulful, and purposeful ways of operating.

Build a comprehensive understanding of seven popular databases in just seven weeks, including MongoDB, CouchDB, and more. Perfect for those new to databases or looking to expand their knowledge of NoSQL systems, this book covers the five data models and how to choose the right one for your needs. Dive into real-world examples and projects to see the practical applications of each database. Learn to use tools like Ruby, Java, and Amazon's EC2 to create scalable, high-performance database platforms. Build your knowledge of databases and the world of open source software and NoSQL, providing a solid foundation for your future projects.

Learn the fundamentals of Arduino programming and electronics in a hands‑on, accessible guide that walks you through data processing, microcontroller concepts, and open‑source projects.

A guide to using App Inventor to create Android applications presents step-by-step instructions for a variety of projects, including creating location-aware apps, data storage, and decision-making apps.

Much of the innovative programming that powers the Internet, creates operating systems, and produces software is the result of "open source" code, that is, code that is freely distributed--as opposed to being kept secret--by those who write it. Leaving source code open has generated some of the most sophisticated developments in computer technology, including, most notably, Linux and Apache, which pose a significant challenge to Microsoft in the marketplace. As Steven Weber discusses, open source's success in a highly competitive industry has subverted many assumptions about how businesses are run, and how intellectual products are created and protected. Traditionally, intellectual property law has allowed companies to control knowledge and has guarded the rights of the innovator, at the expense of industry-wide cooperation. In turn, engineers of new software code are richly rewarded; but, as Weber shows, in spite of the conventional wisdom that innovation is driven by the promise of individual and corporate wealth, ensuring the free distribution of code among computer programmers can empower a more effective process for building intellectual products. In the case of Open Source, independent programmers--sometimes hundreds or thousands of them--make unpaid contributions to software that develops organically, through trial and error. Weber argues that the success of open source is not a freakish exception to economic principles. The open source community is guided by standards, rules, decisionmaking procedures, and sanctioning mechanisms. Weber explains the political and economic dynamics of this mysterious but important market development.