<quote who="William Chivers"/> > 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.
Not at all, on the contrary, it's very cool. :-) > 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. "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution" would be my first recommendation. It's a good, broad discussion of Free Software and Open Source, from the people who made it happen: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/ It's available online as well: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/toc.html These additional texts by ESR, mentioned in Open Sources, would also be worthwhile covering (the first three are the most famous and relevant). http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/ How I wish I had courses like these... Good luck with it, and thank you for broadening new students' horizons. - Jeff -- Great minds think different? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
