Elliot McGucken discusses classical computing and provides a brief history of open source.
Andrew Orlowski discussing a report commissioned by the US military about open source and free software.
A series of well-written articles, knowledgeable yet understandable.
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.
Explains the competing open source philosophies and development models, with examples of popular open source projects such as Linux, Apache, KDE and Python.
Long article with examples.
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.
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.
Article promoting cross-platform, open standard and educationally grounded computing in schools.
On the Birth of the Free Software Movement in 1887. The author compares new code to the constructed language Esperanto.
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