What is Free and Open Source Software

Geopolitics of Software Industry

"Sociology" of the movement

Legal considerations

Choosing Free/OpenSource software

Why address this question in classes at INT

Reference and Bibliography

License of this document

Reference and Bibliography

The GNU project : http://www.gnu.org/

The OpenSource Initiative : http://www.opensource.org/

FSF Europe : http://www.fsfeurope.org/

Bibliography :

David A. Wheeler's "Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!" : http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html
Eric Raymond's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" : http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

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