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- A Response to Nikolai Bezroukov - Eric Raymond's response to Bezroukov's "Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research"
firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_11/raymond/index.html
- A Second Look at the Cathedral and Bazaar - Another critical review of Eric Raymond's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."
firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_12/bezroukov/index.html
- Developers using open-source software behind bosses' backs - CNN.com article about the spread of Linux in offices.
www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/05/05/open.source.smugglers.idg/index.html
- Development, Ethical Trading and Free Software - This paper makes the political and ethical case for the adoption of free software by Community Aid Abroad and other members of Oxfam International.
firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_12/yee/index.html
- Fast Company: Inspired by Work - Eric Raymond interview explaining open source work.
www.fastcompany.com/online/29/inspired.html
- Forbes: Letting go of Lego - "Hackers crack the code of a new chip and post the design secrets on the Web. The chip's maker, instead of suing, holds fire. What gives?"
www.forbes.com/forbes/99/0809/6403122a.htm
- Free Source as Free Thought: Architecting Free Standards - This paper calls for the support of open standards and non-proprietary software in civil activities, such as public education, taxes, patent and grant proposals, etc.
firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_1/mann/index.html
- Gnutella Replaces Godzilla in Corporate Media - Gary Morton responds to Gnutella story in Canada's Globe and Mail.
www.interlog.com/~cjazz/gnu1.htm
- History of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) - A brief rundown from the Open Source advocacy body, the OSI.
www.opensource.org/history.html
- How Open Source Development Could Change the Way We Get Things Done - A feature story from the Washington Monthly.
www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/0003.thompson.html
- InformationWeek: Is There An Open-Source Solution? - Despite lack of marketing resources, more businesses are discovering and deploying open-source software in their back offices. Support has improved, capable tools quickly become the standard by which commercial products are measured.
www.informationweek.com/817/source.htm
- Making it in a Post Windows World - The process transitioning from a Windows to a Linux desktop computer, step by step setup instructions for a dialup account, VNC, and much more.
www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200006/200006.htm
- Musings on open source security models - A good article about how security systems for computers can be better if done the open source way.
www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1998-11/lw-11-ramparts.html
- Open-Source Software - Provides an introduction to what Open Source Software is.
www.tux.org/~niemi/opensource/customer-case.html
- Open-Source Software Development, by Davor Cubranic - Addresses the obstacles which OSS must overcome to move from the specialist community to the mainstream.
sern.ucalgary.ca/~maurer/ICSE99WS/Submissions/Cubranic/Cubranic.html
- Open-Source Software Development, by Kim Johnson - Explains the competing open source philosophies and development models, with examples of popular open source projects such as Linux, Apache, KDE and Python.
www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~johnsonk/SENG/SENG691/open.htm
- OpenSource.org: Open Source Definition - A definition of the Open Source license for software.
www.opensource.org/osd.html
- osOpinion: How to Avoid 1984 Through Our Computers - How open source enhances privacy.
www.osopinion.com/Opinions/JacobGerber/JacobGerber1.html
- Salon Magazine's collection of Open Source articles - A series of well-written articles, knowledgeable yet understandable.
www.salonmagazine.com/21st/feature/1998/12/11list.html
- Salon | The Free Software story - Salon's complete coverage of Linux and the Open Source Movement
www.salon.com/tech/special/opensource/index.html
- The Wall Street Performer Protocol - This paper sketches out a proposal for the creation of a software completion bond market as a practical implementation of the Street Performer Protocol for the funding of open source software.
www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue6_6/rasch/index.html
- The World of Open Source - by Michael Tiemann, GNU C++ creator and Cygnus founder.
www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/showtell/story/0,3656,2265482,00.html
- Why 'Free Softare' is Better Than 'Open Source' - An essay from the Free Software Foundation arguing that the term "free software" is a better choice than the term "open source".
www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
- Wide Open News: Be Open or Die - Preventing others from building upon software hinders the growth of new ideas.
www.wideopennews.com/story/8.html
- ZDNet: Sm@rt Reseller: Who Is the Open-Source Community? - UNC study sheds new light on the people behind the movement.
www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2384154,00.html
- In the Beginning was the Command Line - A history of operating systems, by Neal Stephenson, the author of such novels as 'Snow Crash', 'The Diamond Age' and 'Zodiac'.
www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
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