Hi all,
as a fan of fs/os i want to see more acceptance for this in my company. I have figured out, that even programmers in my company have lack of knowledge about FS/OS. To change this, i would like to collect information and write a document about this. Well, i searched amazon and didn't find any book. Google brought billions of hits.
i would like to ask if somebody would like to share his/her link collection with me or would like to discuss what's a must have in such a document.
In my first ideas i though about this topics:
- what means free software and open source? - what are licenses and which are wellknown (GPL, LGPL, Apache2, BSD) - how big development-groups work and can survive (apache and gnu) - where to find free software and seperate the good from the bad (is this project dying or not in nearest future? can i use it anyway) - how to get involved
I know there is a lot information on the net (sometimes i think i read it all ;-)) but i missed a "book". I would like to try to communicate with OS-Developers and write about their experiences with open source. why do they do such things? what's the benefit?
Let me know what you think about such an idea. If you know similar papers which are better than i could do :-) let me know. If you have another ideas- tell me.
So, keep on hacking & cheers, Chris.
Chris,
* C. Grobmeier grobmeier@possessed.de [051128 14:55]:
as a fan of fs/os i want to see more acceptance for this in my company. I have figured out, that even programmers in my company have lack of knowledge about FS/OS. To change this, i would like to collect information and write a document about this. Well, i searched amazon and didn't find any book. Google brought billions of hits.
Since you seem to be located in Germany, have you found already the book by Volker Grassmuck (published by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, also downloadable as PDF)
Regards,
Frank
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:02:39PM +0100, Frank Koormann wrote:
Chris,
- C. Grobmeier grobmeier@possessed.de [051128 14:55]:
as a fan of fs/os i want to see more acceptance for this in my company. I have figured out, that even programmers in my company have lack of knowledge about FS/OS. To change this, i would like to collect information and write a document about this. Well, i searched amazon and didn't find any book. Google brought billions of hits.
Since you seem to be located in Germany, have you found already the book by Volker Grassmuck (published by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, also downloadable as PDF)
This one is good, also there is http://intevation.de/~bernhard/publications/200408-hmd/200408-wandel_der_it_...
which has many references.
Important is: [Gay] Joshua Gay [Hrsg.] "Free Software Free Society: selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman" Erste Ausgabe, GNU Press 2002, Boston; www.gnupress.org, ISBN 1-882114-98-1 (Fast alle Texte auch auf [FSF Web].)
Note that I usually make a difference between the development model (closed or more open) and the licensing model (free or non-free).
Bernhard
Thank you Frank. I got * http://www.deshalbfrei.org/ from another list-reader here. It's interesting, it seems that germany is quite active with open source.
Frank Koormann wrote:
Chris,
- C. Grobmeier grobmeier@possessed.de [051128 14:55]:
as a fan of fs/os i want to see more acceptance for this in my company. I have figured out, that even programmers in my company have lack of knowledge about FS/OS. To change this, i would like to collect information and write a document about this. Well, i searched amazon and didn't find any book. Google brought billions of hits.
Since you seem to be located in Germany, have you found already the book by Volker Grassmuck (published by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, also downloadable as PDF)
Regards,
Frank