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Re: Good open source primer?



On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:47:57PM -0500, stan wrote:

> Somewhere in the middle of the discussion, it became quite clear that
> he simply _did not understand_ the concept of obtaining a peice of
> software that he did not have to pay for :-(

(snip) 

> I would like to provide him with a gentle introduction to open
> source/public doamin software.

Cathedral and the Bazaar is a fairly straight forward read.  It's
available online and in printed form from most any book seller.

   http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

Here are a few others:
   http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
   http://www.opensource.org/advocacy/faq.php
   
-- 
Jamin W. Collins



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