Philosophical Principles

Books in this entry cover issues such as personal freedom, social development and intellectual property.

Title	Author	Link
Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law	Lawrence Rosen	Free Online PDF
Government Policy Toward Open Source Software	Aei-Brookings	Amazon
Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing	Andrew M. St. Laurent	Amazon
Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity	Siva Vaidhyanathan	Amazon
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World	Lawerence Lessig	Amazon
Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity	Lawerence Lessig	Free Online PDF
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software	Sam Williams	HTML PDF Amazon
Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman	Richard M. Stallman	Amazon
Open Source Software Law	Rod Dixon	Amazon
Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society	James Boyle	Amazon
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution	Chris Dibona (editor)	Amazon

The following two articles were published at IBM online by the editor in Chief of Linux Magazine

Engineering Practices

Title	Author	Link
The Cathedral and the Baazar	Eric S. Raymond	(O'Reilly)

Title	Author	Link
The Business and Economics of Linux and Open Source	Martin Fink	Amazon
The Success of Open Source	Steven Weber	Amazon
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything	Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams	Amazon ; Book Home Page
Blue Ocean Strategy	Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne	Amazon ; Home Page
The impact of greed on academic medicine and patient care	John V Frangioni	PDF