On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Sean Corfield <[email protected]>wrote:

> Read Eric Raymond's "The Cathedral and The Bazaar"


+1 -- I wind up reading this probably once a year. Most of it's available
free online (though I'd suggest buying the book):
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/

Another great read is Richard Stallman's "Free Software, Free Society":
http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society/

Also available free:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf

The reason I bring up the Stallman essays is that ESR and RMS have differing
viewpoints on things. ESR is in the "open source" camp, whereas RMS is
firmly in the "free software" camp, so reading both will give you a good
background on the philosophies behind the two sides.


A discussion of open source licenses would be a good topic for the
> opencfsummit.org conference!
>

Yep! Definitely one of the things we have planned.

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