SunWorld: The essential guide to open source, What you need to be a know-it-all

"For this month's Silicon Carney column, Rich Morin dives into the free software and open source communities to compile an essential list of annotated pointers. Read on and discover everything you didn't know you couldn't live without!"

"The free software and open source communities have developed a fair amount of literature over the years. Aside from information on specific packages (not discussed here), quite a few documents cover such wide-ranging topics as economics, philosophy, and sociology. Here, then, are annotated pointers and links to documents that will entertain you on those long winter evenings."

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