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Forbes: Letting go of Lego - http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0809/6403122a.html
"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?" |
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UXculture - http://www.uxculture.com/
Weblog exploring the Open Source and related topics dealing with user experience design and its impact on technology, business, and society. Also touches on digital design, business strategy, and the emergence of networked society. |
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The Wall Street Performer Protocol - http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_6/rasch/index.html
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. |
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First Monday: Open Source Intelligence - http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/stalder/
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. |
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Open-Source Software Development, by Kim Johnson - http://chinese-school.netfirms.com/computer-article-open-source.html
Explains the competing open source philosophies and development models, with examples of popular open source projects such as Linux, Apache, KDE and Python. |
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InformationWeek: Is There An Open-Source Solution? - http://www.informationweek.com/817/source.htm
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. |
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A Second Look at the Cathedral and Bazaar - http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_12/bezroukov/index.html
Another critical review of Eric Raymond's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." |
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Free Source as Free Thought: Architecting Free Standards - http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_1/mann/index.html
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. |
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Development, Ethical Trading and Free Software - http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_12/yee/index.html
This paper makes the political and ethical case for the adoption of free software by Community Aid Abroad and other members of Oxfam International. |
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A Response to Nikolai Bezroukov - http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_11/raymond/index.html
Eric Raymond's response to Bezroukov's "Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research" |