Concepts, Practices & the Future – from eIT.in
This web page intends to provide comprehensive web resources for free/libre & open source software domains.
You might also want to see a few other interesting sections @ eIT.in
- Linux Research & Future Trends – provides resources for the various research & future trends in GNU/Linux
- Networking WWW Resources – a comprehensive WWW resource for all things networking, over 2000 links
- Programming WWW Resources – Links & resources for over 200 programming languages
- Making Money from Open Source & Free Software ( see also: Follars.com – Free, Open Source Dollars)
Free Software & Open Source Software in Industries & Domains
Free Software in Education
· Free & Open Source Software in Development A Myth or Reality – Case Study in a University in Uganda (PDF)
· Report of the discussion on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Open Educational Resources – International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO (PDF); see also: Appendix: FOSS tools for OER development, management and dissemination (PDF); the summary report Wiki is here
· Draft report of a meeting convened by the Digital Library Federation on October 5-6, 2001 in Washington DC
Free Software in Medicine
Free Software & Other Industries/Domains
· Non-profit Open Source Initiative - NOSI is an organization that was started for two purposes: to facilitate and encourage the use of open source software in the nonprofit sector, and to bring nonprofits and open source developers and projects together
· Open Wares - Openwares.org is a public Open Source and Freeware software development web site, providing free publishing, packaging, hosting, and marketing services to individual developers. The mission of Openwares.org is to enrich the global internet community by providing software developers who lack the time, money or knowledge a centralized place to publish, control and market their creations at no cost.
Free Software Research
- Libre Software Research in Big Projects – Research Done on Linux, KDE, GNOME & Apache (PDF)
- http://opensource.mit.edu/research_directory.php (PDF) , see also: Free, Open Source Research Community @ MIT
- FLOSSOphy – FLOSS References & Case Studies (PDF)
- Free/Open Source Software – Localization (PDF)
- Open Source Software Localisation Toolkit
- FLOSS – Engineering & Economics (PDF)
- Measuring Libre Software Using Debian 3.1 (PDF)
- A Research on Libre Software Developers
- Open Source Everyware – Wired.com (PDF)
- Open Sourcing Society – Discourse & Freedom (PDF)
- Mysteries of Open Source Software – Black, White & Red All Over? (PDF)
- Open Source & Free Software – Organizational & Societal Implications
- Free Ideas – Initiative to Reverse the Proliferation of Patents & Copyrights – The Economist
- Using FLOSS Towards Building Environmental Information Systems (PDF)
- Opening Doors & Smashing Windows – Alternative Methods of Funding Software Development (PDF)
- Closed vs Open Software – License Fee vs GDP Per Capita
- FLOSS Survey for 2003 – Stanford University (PDF)
- Free/Open Source Software Academic Bibliography
- GNU/Linux, Free Software for the Pro Audio & Sound Research Domain (PDF)
- Open Source Software - How it Works, Why It’s Free & How it Fits the Needs of Non-profits (PDF)
- The Emergence of F/LOSS for e-Government (PDF)
- Managing the Boundary of an Open Project (PDF)
- Free Software Developers as an Occupational Community – Resolving Conflicts & Fostering Collaboration (PDF)
- http://opensource.mit.edu/
- Libre Software Engineering – Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
- Understanding Motivation and Effort in Free/Open Source Software Project (PDF)
- Libre Software as a Field of Study (PDF)
- Virtual Organization Culture of a Free Software Development Community (PDF)
- Linux & Open Source Trends & Analysis from eWeek
- Open
- Open Source Trends
- Unisys Predicts 2007 Open Source Trends - Linux Electrons
Free Software & Economic Development
· Free Software in Developing Countries Vital to Future Prosperity – United Nations University (PDF) ( see also this)
Free Software Projects
- The FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory
- Free Software Directory – All GNU Packages
- GNU TeXmacs – FSF GNU Project
- Mod_ssl – Apache Interface to Open SSL
- LyX – The Document Processor
- Website Meta Language - WML
- Working on Free Software
- Free Software as Collaborative Text – Florian Cramer
- Free OS – The Resource Center for Free Operating Systems
- FVWM Window Manager
- Enlightenment.org – Graphical Libraries & Tools
- AbiWord Word Processing Software
- Free Software Magazine
- GRASS GIS – The Free Software GIS
- Linux Kernel Archives
Major OSS/FS Projects
· Samba (supports interoperability with Windows clients by acting as a Windows file and print server)
· GNU Compiler Collection (GCC, a suite of compilation tools for C, C++, and several other languages)
Open Source BSD Operating systems
Free Software – Directories & Link-lists
Free Software & the Law
- Software Freedom Law Center
- What’s Patently Wrong about Software Inventions – Interview with Richard M Stallman (PDF)
- Roger Clarke’s Paper on Open Source Licensing
- Current Legal Threats to Free Software
- The Danger of Software Patents – Richard Stallman
- Coding Free Software, Coding Free States – Free Software Legislation in Peru (PDF)
- Patenting Software vs Free Software – What Should the European Union Do? (PDF)
- http://europarl.ffii.org/myths.en.html
- Global Agreements on IP Protection and Public Rights & the Public Domain (PDF)
- The Problem with Software Patents –Ray Benjamin
- Legal Issues Relating to Free & Open Source Software (PDF)
- Taking The Case – Is the GPL Enforceable? (PDF)
- Harm from the Hague - RMS
- The European Union “Software Patents Directive” – What, Why & Where are We Now?
- Software Patentability in CEPIS National Members (PDF)
- Results on European Commission Consultation Exercise on Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions (PDF)
- Open Source Software – Open to Liability – Law.com
- The Global Ratchet for Intellectual Property Rights – Why It Fails & What Should be Done about It? (PDF)
- Legal Uncertainty in Free & Open Source Software & the Political Response
- Renaissance of the Commons – How the New Sciences & The Internet are Framing a New Global Identity & Order – Harvard University (PDF)
- Why Software Should not be Covered by Patents
- Legal Projects by FSF Europe
- Creative Commons
- Intellectual Property & Computer Software (PDF)
- Study on Intellectual Property Rights, the Internet & Copyright (PDF)
- Software Patents – League for Programming Freedom, MIT
- Stopping Software Patents in Europe (PDF)
- Legal Issues Surrounding Free & Open Source Software (PDF)
- Software Freedom – Creation & Danger - explores and explains the framework that creates and protects our freedom to use and work with software.
- Silent Revolutions – How F/OSS Came to Challenge Neoliberal Trends in Intellectual Property Law – Gabriella Coleman (PDF)
- Copyright Reform – the Next Battle for the Media Reform Movement (PDF) – This is in FTP mode.
- Intellectual Property, Computer Software & the Open Source Movement (PDF)
- Anarchism Triumphant – Free Software & the Death of Copyright – Eben Moglen
- Creative Commons – Accessing, Negotiating & Remixing Online Content (PDF)
Hacker Culture
- A Brief History of Hackerdom – Eric Steven Raymond (see also: How to Become a Hacker)
- Helping Hacker Culture Grow
- Hacker Culture – Traditional Hacker Ethics
- Some Thoughts on the Idea of Hacker Culture – Patrice Riemens
- Origin & History of the Hackers – FAQs.org
- Hacker Culture – from Linux Reviews
- How to Become a Hacker – Eric Raymond
- A Brief History of Hackerdom
- The Boston Consulting Group Hacker Survey – Quite Interesting! (PDF)
- Hacker Encyclopedia
- The Conscience of a Hacker
- Anarchy & Source-code – What does the Free Software Movement Have to Do with Anarchism? – MIT – PDF
Other Web Resources on Free Software & Open Source Movements
- Free Software Matters – Free Government – discusses an initiative by Microsoft & Intel, called “Initiative for Choice” for governments
- The Last Dinosaur & the Tarpits of Doom – How Linux Smashed Windows
- Preserving the Information Ecosystem
- Free Software & Good User Interfaces
- License to FUD – Comparing GPL & BSD
- The Software Release Practice HOWTO discusses why license choices are so important to OSS/FS projects
- Counting Source Lines of Code – GNU/Linux Size Estimates
- Fatal Flaw in BSD?
- The Cathedral & the Bazaar
- The Role of Community in Free Software – Chris Hanson
- Making Life with Free Software – Robert Chassell
- Migration to Free/Open Source Software – Universiti Putra, Malaysia (PDF)
- Women do F/LOSS – Isis Migrates to Open Source on Desktop
- How to Fight Software Patents – Singly & Together - RMS
- The Ecology of Open Source Software Development (PDF)
- FLOSS – Enjoy the Freedom (PDF)
- Free Software & Market Relations
- Open Democracy – Part 1, the Story So Far (PDF)
- Keeping Free Software Free - RMS
- All Software should be Free Software (PDF)
- Marxism & Free Software
What Do Ordinary & Not-so-ordinary Folks Feel about Free & Open Source Software – Opinions from Here & Far
- The Cost of Free Software – from Digital Trends
- Whatdya Mean, Free Software? – from The Register,
- Fundamental issues with open source software development by Michelle Levesque @ First Monday
- There Is No Open Source Community - by John Mark Walker. Conventional wisdom says that powerful individuals drive open source by working against the grain to institute a methodology of sharing that would balance the power between software vendors and users. While this makes for an entertaining narrative, there is quantitative evidence to the contrary. The reality is that placing too much emphasis on individual players in the open source movement ignores overarching economic trends that drove open source development and adoption, says this opinion article from ON Lamp
- Microsoft exec: Open source model endangers software economy - Distinguished Engineer Jim Gray doubts American companies can compete on service if products are free – Info World, Mar 2004
- Insecurity in Open Source - What open-source developers can learn about security and quality from—gasp—makers of proprietary software, By Ben Chelf, Business Week, Oct 2006
- What Business Can Learn from Open Source – Paul Graham, Aug 2005
- Open Source Smack-Down - Daniel Lyons @ Forbes, June 2005 - This is what open source software is all about: creating knockoffs and giving them away, destroying the value of whatever the other guy is selling. What's new is that now open-source companies are turning on each other, says this interesting article
- Has Open Source Become a Marketing Slogan? – Asks Daniel Lyons @ Forbes - This is the latest twist in the evolution of the free and open source (FOSS) movement. What began as a revolution has now become just another marketing slogan. Startups are latching onto the hype around “open source” to gain interest from venture capitalists and earn street credibility with the FOSS community, but then proceed with a business model predicated on making money by selling closed source code, he says in this Aug 2005 article in Forbes
- Ken’s Musings about Free Software & Open Source
- Softpanorama: (slightly skeptical) - Open Source Software Educational Society
- Inside the mind of the enemy: the community - By Patrick McFarland; "A few years back, Eric S. Raymond (or, as everyone else calls him, ESR), wrote a lengthy paper about this community. Entitled The Cathedral and the Bazaar, he wrote about how the Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) community does what it wants when it wants to...I don't think he was entirely wrong; I just don't think he was entirely right, either", starts this article. Read on, and don't forget to read the comments!
Forums, Discussion Boards & Blogs
- SugarCRM Open Source Forums
- Open Source & Linux Forums
- DevShed Forums – for open source web developers
- Free & Open Source Software Community @ Oracle
Pls see http://osliving.com/index.php
Happy surfing
