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A Descriptive Process Model for Open-Source Software Development: by Kim Johnson (student thesis) Explains the competing open source philosophies and development models, with examples of popular open source projects such as Linux, Apache, KDE and Python.- sern.ucalgary.ca/students/theses/KimJohnson/toc.htm |
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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 |
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Fast Company: Inspired by Work: Eric Raymond interview explaining open source work.- www.fastcompany.com/online/29/inspired.html |
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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 |
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Government Policy toward Open Source Software: Monograph by Robert W. Hahn, with contributions by James Bessen, David S. Evans, and Lawrence Lessig. [PDF]- www.aei.brookings.org/publications/abstract.php?pid=296 |
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Homer's Open Source Odyssey: Elliot McGucken discusses classical computing and provides a brief history of open source.- classicalmba.com/linuxbusiness.html |
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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 |
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In the Beginning was the Command Line: A history of operating systems, by Neal Stephenson.- www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html |
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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 |
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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, and VNC.- www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200006/200006.htm |
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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 |
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Open Source Software and Documents - A Literature and Resource Review: Brief introduction to the Open Source movement, provides a review of books, sites, and topics.- www.omar.org/opensource/litreview/ |
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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.- chinese-school.netfirms.com/computer-article-open-source.html |
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OpenSource.org: Open Source Definition: A definition of the Open Source license for software.- www.opensource.org/osd.html |
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OReilly - Working Without Copyleft: Article argues against the necessity of the Free Software movement tenet of copyleft.- www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2001/12/12/transition.html - in cache |
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Salon | The Free Software story: Salon's complete coverage of Linux and the Open Source Movement- www.salon.com/tech/special/opensource/index.html |
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Salon Magazine's collection of Open Source articles: A series of well-written articles, knowledgeable yet understandable.- archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/12/11list.html |
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The Register - Open Source is good for America - US military advised: Andrew Orlowski discussing a report commissioned by the US military about open source and free software.- www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27822.html |
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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 |
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The World of Open Source: by Michael Tiemann, GNU C++ creator and Cygnus founder.- www.techtv.com/screensavers/print/0,23102,2265482,00.html |
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University of Waikato - Usability and Open-Source Software Development: Article exploring open source software usability.- www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/dmn/docs/oss.html |
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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 |
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ZDNews - A Business Case for Open Source: Article by Michael A. Olson stating that Open source quietly makes a big difference.- zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-902087.html |
