Fall2009/Reading List
From OpenSourceSoftwarePractice
Recommended Books and Papers Relevant to Open Source Software
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The books are loosely classified in categories here, but please note that many of the books cover topics across categories
Philosophical Principles
Books in this entry cover issues such as personal freedom, social development and intellectual property.
| Title | Author | Link |
|---|---|---|
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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 | |
| Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity | Siva Vaidhyanathan | |
| The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World | Lawerence Lessig | |
| Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity | Lawerence Lessig | |
| Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software | Sam Williams | |
| Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman | Richard M. Stallman | |
| Open Source Software Law | Rod Dixon | |
| Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society | James Boyle | |
| Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution | Chris Dibona (editor) | |
| Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution | Chris DiBona, Mark Stone, Danese Cooper | |
| The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind | James Boyle |
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) |
| Clean Code | Robert C. Martin | Amazon |
| Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project | Karl Fogel | free online as HTML or PDF; Amazon |
Economics
| Title | Author | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Principles of Economics | Libby Rittenberg, Timothy Tregarthen | http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/luisibanez/open-source-software-practice |
| Coase's Penguin | Yochia Benkler | |
| The Wealth of Networks | Yochia Benkler | PDFs at Harvard |
| Economics of Open Source Software | Justin Pappas Johnson | |
| Legal Implications of Open Source Software | David McGowan | |
| The Business and Economics of Linux and Open Source | Martin Fink | |
| The Success of Open Source | Steven Weber | |
| The Political Economy of Open Source | Steven Weber | PDF at Berkeleycdlib Repository |
| The Nature of the Firm | Ronald Coase | HTML |
| Toward a Theory of Property Rights | Harold Demsetz | HTML |
| Shifting Innovation to Users via Toolkits | Eric von Hippel and Ralph Katz | PDF at MIT |
| Democratizing Innovation | Eric von Hippel | PDF at MIT |
| How User Innovations Become Commercial Products | Carliss Y. Baldwin, Christoph Hienerth and Eric von Hippel | PDF at Harvard |
| Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code. | Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack and John Rusnak | PDF at Harvard |
| ‘Libre’ software: Turning fads into institutions? | Jean-Michel Dalle and Nicolas Jullien | PDF at MIT |
| Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright | Eben Moglen | HTML at Columbia University |
| Market, hierarchy, and trust: the knowledge economy and the future of capitalism. | Paul Adler | HTML |
| Open Source Software: Free Provision of Complex Public Goods | James Bessen | |
| Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything | Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams | |
| Blue Ocean Strategy | Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne | |
| The impact of greed on academic medicine and patient care | John V Frangioni |
