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• A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects

  http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.html
  The Software Freedom Law Center's introduction to the legal issues surrounding the use of FOSS.

• A Response to Nikolai Bezroukov

  http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/702
  Eric Raymond's response to Bezroukov's "Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research"

• A Second Look at the Cathedral and Bazaar

  http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/708/618
  Another critical review of Eric Raymond's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."

• Collaborative Source Software

  http://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/archive.php?id=11
  This article presents an approach to combine the best of the Open Source and proprietary software development worlds.

• Development, Ethical Trading and Free Software

  http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/709
  This paper makes the political and ethical case for the adoption of free software by Community Aid Abroad and other members of Oxfam International.

• First Monday: Open Source Intelligence

  http://www.firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/961
  Scientific illustration and analysis of socio-technical approaches that make up a collaborative phenomenon termed Open Source Intelligence, which goes beyond the collaborative coding of software.

• Forbes: Letting go of Lego

  http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0809/6403122a.html
  "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?"

• Free Source as Free Thought: Architecting Free Standards

  http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/723
  This paper calls for the support of open standards and non-proprietary software in civil activities, such as public education, taxes, and patent and grant proposals.

• In the Beginning was the Command Line

  http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
  A history of operating systems, by Neal Stephenson, the author of such novels as 'Snow Crash', 'The Diamond Age' and 'Zodiac'.

• Making it in a Post Windows World

  http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200006/200006.htm
  The process transitioning from a Windows to a Linux desktop computer, step by step setup instructions for a dialup account, and VNC.

• Monochrom: Some Code To Die For

  http://www.monochrom.at/codetodiefor/
  On the Birth of the Free Software Movement in 1887. The author compares new code to the constructed language Esperanto.

• Open Source Software and Documents - A Literature and Resource Review

  http://www.omar.org/opensource/litreview/
  Brief introduction to the Open Source movement, provides a review of books, sites, and topics.

• Open-Source Software Development, by Kim Johnson

  http://chinese-school.netfirms.com/computer-article-open-source.html
  Explains the competing open source philosophies and development models, with examples of popular open source projects such as Linux, Apache, KDE and Python.

• OpenSource.org: Open Source Definition

  http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
  A definition of the Open Source license for software.

• OReilly - Working Without Copyleft

  http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/policy/2001/12/12/transition.html
  Article argues against the necessity of the Free Software movement tenet of copyleft.

• The Register: Open Source is Good for America - US Military Advised

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/10/29/open_source_is_good/
  Andrew Orlowski discusses a report commissioned by the US military about open source and free software.

• The Wall Street Performer Protocol

  http://www.firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/865
  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.

• Why 'Free Software' is Better Than 'Open Source'

  http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
  An essay from the Free Software Foundation arguing that the term "free software" is a better choice than the term "open source".

• Wikipedia - Open Source

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
  Long article with examples.

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