Open Source Development

 

new improved version of this chapter

(including discussion of GPL and of the way that projects are actually run)

 

This - sourceforge - is a site that coordinates projects carried out using open source development.

 

Interview with Linus Torvalds (who gave his name to Linux).

 

Article: "Cave or Community?: An Empirical Examination of 100 Mature Open Source Projects"

 

Article: "Essence of Distributed Work: The Case of the Linux Kernel"

 

Article: "Copyleft vs. copyright: A Marxist Critique"

 

GNU web site

 

Free Software Foundation web site

 

The Linux site

 

Article: "Why Open Source Software/Free Software? Look at the Numbers!"

 

Article: "Open Source Software: Altruism?"

 

Article on the social structure of open source projects

 

massive article explaining why open source software is superior