William Chivers wrote: > I am looking for a book to make the required text. .... > 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.
It's likely that there is not yet an appropriate book available yet. (opportunity for you there) If not then perhaps approach the subject like they do in Arts/English/Phil where they 'study texts'. In this case the students would study the 'classics' such as: 1. The Cathedral and the Bazaar http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ 1a. Homesteading the Noosphere http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/ 2. "an overview of the weaknesses of Eric Raymond's (ESR) paper The Cathedral and the Bazaar" at http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_12/bezroukov/ 2a. RSR's reply to the above at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/response-to-bezroukov.html 3. The GNU / LGNU / Artistic / licenses and the differences. Perhaps bring in a legal person for one class to outline subtle legal implications in this section. see http://www.fsf.org/licenses/licenses.html and other sites. 4. The Philosophy of the GNU Project at http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/philosophy.html There are speeches and interviews there to study. generally lots of things at ESR's pages http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/ Also look up writing/statemments by Microsoft about free/open source software. Seeing how the other side of the coin sees it is quite worthwhile and will give a flavour of bi partisanship to the course :-) lol googling for '"open source" economics' gives lots of stuff. ** And this one is really GOOD for references to lots of published papers on open source economics http://opensource.mit.edu/online_papers.php Gee there is so much the students may not need to buy a text book but the lecturer will have quite a time working out what to include as there is sooo much stuff online. Just ideas. -- Mike Lake Uni of Technol., Sydney UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER ======================================================================== This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. ======================================================================== -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
