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Old February 22nd, 2002, 07:47 AM
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hi,

i am currently an undergrad at uni in the UK. I've been set the task of writing an essay discussing the rise in popularity of the open source movement against microsoft over the past decade.

does anyone know of any journals or books that would deal with the subject in hand.

thanx in advance

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The primary site: http://www.opensource.org/
Eric S. Raymonds widely acclaimed book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...7515485-9313210

That's a good start... And then there's always www.google.com
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thanx andnaess.

unfort. i've been told i'm not allowed to reference the web. cheers for the book tip though

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thanx andnaess.

unfort. i've been told i'm not allowed to reference the web. cheers for the book tip though

jk.


ROFL! Well good luck, you're gonna have a bloody hard time. What kind of university are you attending anyway? The web was developed *by* scientists and academics *for* scientists and academics with the very purpose of making information sharing easier. Do you know if you're allowed to reference paperback editions? Or maybe only certain publishers are acceptable?
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you can try looking at "the cathedral and the bazaar". it's more about the open source development process, but the author has written a number of other papers about open source. you can find it on the web (search www.google.com ) and it's available in book form with some of his other papers.
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NoXcuz, tell me about it!! it sux.

Uni's stance is material on the web isn't always written by people in the know, but hey you know that means that all material published in books is right

cheers 4 the thoughts anyway.

jk.

ps if i find any useful material i'll post it here.
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can you reference Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

I did a presentation on this subject last year in a General Education course .. got all my material off the web.. if your uni asserts that Richard Stallman is not a good enuff reference for your essay you might as well reference Bart Simpson and call it a day.

whether you can use this in your bibliography or not you should read this article by Richard Stallman... in fact .. it does say at the top "originally published in the book - Open Sources" .. so there ya go.
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