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

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

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 26, 1999

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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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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