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780 Listings - DR (10/10)780 Listings - DR (10/10) Salon Magazine's collection of Open Source articles - http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/12/11list.html
A series of well-written articles, knowledgeable yet understandable.
780 Listings - DR (10/10)780 Listings - DR (10/10) Salon | The Free Software story - http://www.salon.com/tech/special/opensource/index.html
Salon's complete coverage of Linux and the Open Source Movement
230,016 Listings - DR (10/10)230,016 Listings - DR (10/10) Developers using open-source software behind bosses' backs - http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/05/05/open.source.smugglers.idg/
CNN.com article about the spread of Linux in offices.
74 Listings - DR (9/10)74 Listings - DR (9/10) 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?"
258 Listings - DR (9/10)258 Listings - DR (9/10) ZDNews - A Business Case for Open Source - http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-122648.html
Article by Michael A. Olson stating that Open source quietly makes a big difference.
9 Listings - DR (8/10)9 Listings - DR (8/10) 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.
2,476 Listings - DR (8/10)2,476 Listings - DR (8/10) 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.
189 Listings - DR (7/10)189 Listings - DR (7/10) 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".
18 Listings - DR (6/10)18 Listings - DR (6/10) InformationWeek: Is There An Open-Source Solution? - http://www.informationweek.com/817/source.htm
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.
54 Listings - DR (6/10)54 Listings - DR (6/10) OReilly - Working Without Copyleft - http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2001/12/12/transition.html
Article argues against the necessity of the Free Software movement tenet of copyleft.
11 Listings - DR (6/10)11 Listings - DR (6/10) PerlStalker's SysAdmin Notes and Tools - http://perlstalker.amigo.net/
How-to's, documentation and various tools for administrating Open Source servers in an ISP environment.
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) 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.
10 Listings - DR (6/10)10 Listings - DR (6/10) How Open Source Development Could Change the Way We Get Things Done - http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/0003.thompson.html
A feature story from the Washington Monthly.
253 Listings - DR (5/10)253 Listings - DR (5/10) 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.
9 Listings - DR (5/10)9 Listings - DR (5/10) OpenSource.org: Open Source Definition - http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
A definition of the Open Source license for software.
40 Listings - DR (4/10)40 Listings - DR (4/10) A Second Look at the Cathedral and Bazaar - http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_12/bezroukov/index.html
Another critical review of Eric Raymond's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."
40 Listings - DR (4/10)40 Listings - DR (4/10) Development, Ethical Trading and Free Software - http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_12/yee/index.html
This paper makes the political and ethical case for the adoption of free software by Community Aid Abroad and other members of Oxfam International.
40 Listings - DR (4/10)40 Listings - DR (4/10) A Response to Nikolai Bezroukov - http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_11/raymond/index.html
Eric Raymond's response to Bezroukov's "Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research"
40 Listings - DR (4/10)40 Listings - DR (4/10) Free Source as Free Thought: Architecting Free Standards - http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_1/mann/index.html
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.
40 Listings - DR (4/10)40 Listings - DR (4/10) First Monday: Open Source Intelligence - http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/stalder/
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.
40 Listings - DR (4/10)40 Listings - DR (4/10) The Wall Street Performer Protocol - http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_6/rasch/index.html
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.
On Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) 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.
On Target - DR (2/10)On Target - DR (2/10) 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'.
8 Listings - DR (2/10)8 Listings - DR (2/10) 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.
7,463 Listings - DR (2/10)7,463 Listings - DR (2/10) Wikipedia - Open Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
Long article with examples.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Why Free Software has Poor Usability, and How to Improve It - http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability
Essay by Matthew Paul Thomas, discussing the origins of common problems with constructive suggestions to address them.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Open Source Strategies - http://www.opensourcestrategies.org/
Compilation of information relating to open source business models and strategies. Includes recommended books and related links.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) 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.

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