A page somewhat related to LinuxAdvocacy, but focused more on things like the sociology and philosophy of open source software (use and development).

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Recommended

• A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy; Clay Shirky; July 1, 2003; on the "Networks, Economics, and Culture" mailing list — a fascinating article, about the rise of social software (software for group collaboration), and the mistakes that keep being repeated, and something like three things you should be aware of and four things you should do. (I started summarizing it offline, I may move the summary here when I'm done, and, maybe the article needs to be categorized somewhere else — but, for now, it's here.)

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• Code, Culture and Cash: The Fading Altruism of Open Source Development; First Monday, Volume 6, Number 12; December 3rd 2001; by David Lancashire -- the first link (above) is to a summary by Karim Lakhani, here is a link to the paper -- I skimmed the summary, I did not visit the paper.

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• RandyKramer - 26 Apr 2002
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