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From: daniel_james_at_[hidden]
Date: 2007-10-24 18:56:42
Author: danieljames
Date: 2007-10-24 18:56:42 EDT (Wed, 24 Oct 2007)
New Revision: 40440
URL: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/40440
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- Boost Background Information
- </h1>
- <h2>
- Why should an organization use Boost?
- </h2>
- <p>
- In a word, <i><b>Productivity</b></i>. Use of high-quality libraries like
- Boost speeds initial development, results in fewer bugs, reduces
- reinvention-of-the-wheel, and cuts long-term maintenance costs. And since
- Boost libraries tend to become de facto or de jure standards, many
- programmers are already familiar with them.
- </p>
- <p>
-
- Ten of the Boost libraries are included in the <a href=
- "http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/library_technical_report.html">C++
- Standard Library's TR1</a>, and so are slated for later full
- standardization. More Boost libraries are in the pipeline for <a href=
- "http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1810.html">TR2</a>.
- Using Boost libraries gives an organization a head-start in adopting new
- technologies.
- </p>
- <p>
- Many organization already use programs implemented with Boost, like Adobe
- <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html">Acrobat
- Reader 7.0</a>.
- </p>
- <h2>
- Who else is using Boost?
- </h2>
-
- <p>
- See the <a href="../doc/html/who_s_using_boost_.html">Who's Using Boost
- page</a> for a sampling. We don't know the exact numbers, but a release
- gets around 100,000 downloads from SourceForge, and that is only one of
- several distribution routes.
- </p>
- <h2>
- What do others say about Boost?
- </h2>
- <p class="c2">
- "...one of the most highly regarded and expertly designed C++ library
- projects in the world."
- </p>
-
- <blockquote>
- <p>
- -- Herb Sutter and <a href=
- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Alexandrescu">Andrei
- Alexandrescu</a>, <a href=
- "http://safari.awprofessional.com/?XmlId=0321113586">C++ Coding
- Standards</a>
- </p>
- </blockquote>
-
- <p class="c2">
- "Item 55: Familiarize yourself with Boost."
- </p>
- <blockquote>
- <p>
- -- Scott Meyers, <a href=
- "http://www.awl.com/cseng/titles/0-321-33487-6/">Effective C++, 3rd
- Ed.</a>
- </p>
-
- </blockquote>
- <p class="c2">
- "The obvious solution for most programmers is to use a library that
- provides an elegant and efficient platform independent to needed services.
- Examples are BOOST..."
- </p>
- <blockquote>
- <p>
- -- Bjarne Stroustrup,
- <a href="http://www.research.att.com/~bs/abstraction.pdf">Abstraction,
- libraries, and efficiency in C++</a>
-
- </p>
- </blockquote>
- <h2>
- How do users get support?
- </h2>
- <p>
- For relatively straightforward support needs, users rely on the <a href=
- "mailing_lists.htm">mailing lists</a>. One of the advantages of Boost is
- the responsiveness of other users and Boost developers.
- </p>
- <p>
-
- For more involved needs, <a href="links.htm#CommercialSupport">Commercial
- Support</a> is available.
- </p>
- <h2>
- What about license issues?
- </h2>
- <p>
- Boost has its own license, developed with
- help from the Harvard Law School. The <a href=
- "license_info.html">Boost license polices</a> encourage both commercial and
- non-commercial use, and the Boost license is not related to the GPL or
- other licenses - that are sometimes seen as business unfriendly.
- </p>
-
- <h2>
- What about other intellectual property issues?
- </h2>
- <p>
- The Boost libraries tend to be new, fresh, and creative designs. They are
- not copies, clones, or derivations of proprietary libraries. Boost has a
- firm policy to respect the IP rights of others. The development of Boost
- libraries is publicly documented via the mailing lists and version control
- repository. The source code has been inspected by many, many knowledgeable
- programmers. Each Boost file has a copyright notice and license
- information. IP issues have been reviewed by the legal teams from some of
- the corporations which use Boost, and in some cases these lawyers have been
- kind enough to give Boost feedback on IP issues. There are no guarantees,
- but those factors all tend to reduce IP risk.
- </p>
- <h2>
- Why would anyone give away valuable software for free?
- </h2>
- <p>
-
- Businesses and other organizations often prefer to have code developed,
- maintained, and improved in the open source community when it does not
- contain technology specific to their application domain, because it allows
- them to focus more development resources on their core business.
- </p>
- <p>
- Individuals contribute for the technical challenge, to hone their technical
- skills, for the sense of community, as part of their graduate school
- programs, as a way around geographic isolation, to enhance their employment
- opportunities, and as advertisements for their consulting services. There
- are probably as many reasons as there are individuals. Some of the
- apparently individual contributions come from employees of support
- companies with contracts from businesses or other organizations who have an
- interest in seeing that a library is well-maintained.
- </p>
- <h2>
- Who pays Boost's expenses?
- </h2>
- <p>
- Boost doesn't really have any expenses! All the infrastructure is
- contributed by supporters, such as the <a href=
- "http://www.osl.iu.edu/">Open Systems Lab</a> at Indiana University,
-
- SourceForge, <a href=
- "http://www.boost-consulting.com/">Boost Consulting</a>, <a href=
- "http://www.meta-comm.com/">MetaCommunications</a>, and the individuals,
- companies, and other organizations who run the regression tests. Borland,
- HP, Intel, and Microsoft have contributed compilers. And hundreds, or even
- thousands, of programmers contribute their time. That's what makes Boost
- possible.
- </p>
- <hr>
- <p>
- Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED"
-s-format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->07 July, 2005
-<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="21138" -->
- </p>
-
- <p>
- © Copyright Beman Dawes 2005.
- </p>
- <p>
- Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See
- accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy
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