Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Free online book Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy is intended for anyone considering using Open Source. It describes what open source is, discusses business reasons for using open source, and describes how an open source project works in a day-to-day manner.

Date Added: 7/19/2006 | Visits: 33422

Producing Open Source Software: Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software.

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Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing: Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing bridges the gap between the open source vision and the practical implications of its legal underpinnings. If open source and free software licenses interest you, this book will help you understand them. If you're an open source/free software developer, this book is an absolute necessity.

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Open Source Democracy: Open Source Democracy: How online communication is changing offline politics includes the following chapters: Introduction, From Moses to modems:Demystifying the storytelling and taking control, Electronic community:From birth to backlash, The opportunity for renaissance, Networked democracy, Open source:Imagining network democracy and Conclusion.

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A Guide To Open Content Licences: This free pdf book covers the following topics: The Black and White (and Grey) of Copyright, Copyleft Contextualised, General Characteristics of Open Content Licenses, Mapping Out the Domain of Open Content Licenses and A Comparative Guide to Key Open Content Licenses.

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Free Software for Busy People: Six characters from different backgrounds will help illustrate the uses of Free Software in different settings. It is worth reading about all their examples to get ideas for your own situation. The author of this free book does a good job of explaining why ordinary people will benefit from open source.

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Texinfo: The GNU Documentation Format, for Version 4: This tutorial is the authoritative text for the official documentation formatting language used for all GNU Project manuals. It assumes no previous Texinfo knowledge and includes many examples and exercises.

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Free as in Freedom: Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. It examines Stallman's unique personality and how that personality has been at turns a driving force and a drawback in terms of the movement's overall success.

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Open Source: The Unauthorized White Papers: This book is for general readers and computer users who wish the entire subjects of Open Source and Linux would sit still in one place long enough for them to get a look at it.

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Programming:Pascal: Pascal is a computer programming language named after the mathemetician Blaise Pascal. It was invented by Niklaus Wirth in 1968 as a research project into the nascent field of compiler theory. This book teaches the Borland programming language, which is different than original Pascal.

Date Added: 7/16/2006 | Visits: 33783