Hello SLUG, I have long been an open source believer but I am a newbie to this type of mailing list, so I hope that this unusual request is not out-of-order.
I am a university lecturer who will be teaching a third year course next semester titled "Contemporary Issues in IT" in our Bachelor of Applied IT degree at the Ourimbah campus of the Uni of Newcastle (a great multi-disciplinary degree, by-the-way). I intend to spend most of the semester on open source software. I am looking for a book to make the required text. I am not looking for a "how to install and use Linux" book, but more a book on the open source philosophy, how and why it works, social and IT implications of the success of the open source development model, the place of Linux in the enterprise, etc. Wiley had a book called "Linux at Work" which is close to what I am looking for but not quite there. Does anyone have any suggestions? It would also have to be quite recent, of course. Thanks and regards, Bill Chivers --------------------------------------------- William J. Chivers Lecturer in Information Technology School of DCIT Faculty of Science and Information Technology University of Newcastle---Ourimbah Campus PO Box 127, Ourimbah, NSW 2259 Australia phone: +61 2 4349 4473 fax: +61 2 4348 4145 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
