[wplug] Free book on the culture of FOSS

Pat Barron pat at lectroid.com
Sun Feb 10 01:11:32 EST 2013


I just read this article about Gabriella Coleman's book, "Coding Freedom".

http://opensource.com/life/13/1/want-understand-open-source-live-its-developers

The book is an exploration of the culture of FOSS; I'll spare you a 
bunch of words, as the author of the article linked above explains it 
much better than I can.

In true open source spirit, the author has released the entire book 
under a Creative Commons license, and made it available to download for 
free, here:

http://gabriellacoleman.org/Coleman-Coding-Freedom.pdf

(You can also buy it in "dead trees" format from Princeton University 
Press.)

--Pat.


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