:osOpinion: Open Source Software and Documents: A Literature and Online Resource Review
osOpinion: Open Source Software and Documents: A Literature and Online Resource Review Jun 30, 2000, 05 :46 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (5561 reads) (Other stories by John G. Drummond)
"Open source software (OSS) and open source documents (OSD) are a rising star in
technology today. The term "open source" was coined merely two years ago (1998), and
is now a media buzzword (Raymond, 205). With its rapidly growing market share and
corporate and public interest to match, open source as a concept will not stay a fringe
phenomenon for long; in fact, it is rapidly entering the mainstream. This literature and
online resource review is a starting point for anyone interested in the subject."
"Since open source is relatively novel (as far as the mainstream, non-hacker culture is
concerned) and largely exists online, there are only two printed works on the
subject-and most of the material in these two books is also freely available online. One of
the things that make the open source movement so unusual is that as it has developed
over the last twenty years or so, it has done little self-documenting. This is one reason
that Eric S. Raymond , self-appointed chief advocate for open source, wrote his
now-famous essay "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."
