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Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
One of the leading guru's of open source, makes his case for why open source is better than 'closed source,' or proprietary software. Although much of the content is available on the Internet, here it is for sale as a 'closed source' book.
preview: http://www.amazon.com   date: 10/1/2002

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Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution is a fascinating look at the raging debate that is its namesake. Filled with writings from the central players--from Linux creator Linus Torvalds to Perl creator Larry Wall--the book convinces the reader of the overwhelming merits of freeing up the many iterations of software's source code.
preview: http://www.amazon.com   date: 1/1/1999

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Business Models for Open Source Hardware
The widely heralded system-on-chip revolution will require the "commoditization" of semiconductor intellectual property, which may in many cases be more efficiently produced in a open source model. This paper will explore those ideas and propose possible business situations in which the open source hardware model could be successful.
preview: http://homepages.nyu.edu   date: 1/1/2000

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Setting Up Shop: The Business of Open Source Software
This document investigates the business of commercial open-source software, including why a company might adopt an open-source model, how open-source licensing works, what business models might be usable for commercial open-source products, what special considerations apply to commercial products released as open source, and how various objections relating to open source might be answered.
preview: http://www.hecker.org   date: 2/5/1999

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Richard Stallman's Personal Home Page
Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU Project, launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system GNU (an acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix''), and thereby give computer users the freedom that most of them have lost. GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small.
preview: http://www.stallman.org  

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Salon21st the free software story
A wonderful collection of articles on Open Source in all its facets.
preview: http://www.salon.com  

university    

MIT Open Source
In the spirit of free and open source software (F/OSS), we are attempting to establish a community in which information will be freely exchanged, so that we may further the understanding of open source and its implications outside the realm of software development.
preview: http://opensource.mit.edu