http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html
- Richard Stallman explains the numerous benefits of OSS projects.
(April 1, 1998)
http://www.open-technology.com/
- This site contains numerous commentaries by different authors,
celebrating the benefits of Open Source Technology.
http://www.opensource.org/
- This site offers several complementary views of the open-source
phenomenon.
http://www.opensource.org/press_releases/osi-launch.html
- Press releases concerning the community's strengthening support
of the Open Source campaign.
http://linuxtoday.com/index.html
- A resource for business professionals interested in maintaining
a high level of awareness of the news pertaining to Linux and
the Open Source communities.
http://www.ludd.luth.se/users/no/mssc_abstract.html
- This paper takes on an explorative approach to open-source software
development methodology, examining several projects and analyzing
them in context of widely known software development methodologies
such as life-cycle, prototyping and the spiral model.
http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html
- This essay describes the facts and merits of the decentralized
form of Linux development and support. It suggests some ways that
the continued development and growth of free software such as
Linux can be encouraged.
http://linas.org/linux/web-project.html
- A project whose goal is to provide more coherent, comprehensive
documentation on how Linux can be used to solve common business
problems.
http://circu.its.tudelft.nl/
- Thoroughly describes how the open-design circuit approach outlined
in this article captures the true advantages of open-source software,
and applies them to hardware.
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/chaining-oss.html
- Jason V. Morgane's article, Chaining Open Source Software:
The Case Against Software Patents, describes how the increased
use of software patents threatens the future Open Source Software.
http://www.netaction.org/opensrc/future/oss-whole.html
- This article, written by Nathan Newman, explores the past history
of the government's support for open source computing, examines
the lessons of its success and the results of its pullback in
the early 1990s, and uses this history to outline a policy program
for the future.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is99/Copyleft.htm
- An article, written by Robert W. Gomulkiewicz, for the Houston
Law Review, discusses the principles of open source licensing
and why licensing is central to the open source revolution.
http://www.stromian.com/Open_Source_Licensing.htm
- Open Source Licensing Page. Stromian Technologies offers this
page which has links to articles, history, definitions and commentary
on Open Source Licensing.
http://www.edventure.com/release1/1198.html
- The Open Source Revolution by Tim O'Reilly (with an
introduction by Esther Dyson). This article summarizes the size
of the open-source community, the benefits, and business models.
http://cybercrimes.net/Seminar/seminar.html
- University of Dayton School of Law offers an on-line cybercrimes
seminar.