Open Directory - Computers: Open Source: Articles
This category in other languages: - A history of operating systems, by Neal Stephenson, the author of such novels as 'Snow Crash', 'The Diamond Age' and 'Zodiac'. - The Software Freedom Law Center's introduction to the legal issues surrounding the use of FOSS. - Eric Raymond's response to Bezroukov's "Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research" - Another critical review of Eric Raymond's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." - This article presents an approach to combine the best of the Open Source and proprietary software development worlds. - This paper makes the political and ethical case for the adoption of free software by Community Aid Abroad and other members of Oxfam International. - 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. - The process transitioning from a Windows to a Linux desktop computer, step by step setup instructions for a dialup account, and VNC. - On the Birth of the Free Software Movement in 1887. The author compares new code to the constructed language Esperanto. - Brief introduction to the Open Source movement, provides a review of books, sites, and topics. - Explains the competing open source philosophies and development models, with examples of popular open source projects such as Linux, Apache, KDE and Python. - A definition of the Open Source license for software. - How-to's, documentation and various tools for administrating Open Source servers in an ISP environment. - 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. - An essay from the Free Software Foundation arguing that the term "free software" is a better choice than the term "open source". - Long article with examples. - Andrew Orlowski discusses a report commissioned by the US military about open source and free software. (October 29, 2002) - 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. (May 20, 2002) - Article by Michael A. Olson stating that Open source quietly makes a big difference. (May 08, 2002) - Article argues against the necessity of the Free Software movement tenet of copyleft. (December 19, 2001) - 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. (December 18, 2000) - CNN.com article about the spread of Linux in offices. (May 05, 2000) - A feature story from the Washington Monthly. (March 01, 2000) - "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?" (August 09, 1999)
