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Category: Best Open Source-Related Book

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the amazon-patents-are-evviiilll dept.

As you've probably noticed, we do a lot of book reviews here at Slashdot. But what book do you think deserves the Beanie award? A book on programming? Social Commentary? O'Reilly and Associates? *grin* You can nominate your favorite book - and check out our book reviews for help if you need it.

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  1. nominee: "open sources" by Reinout · · Score: 2

    My nominee is "open sources - voices from the open source revolution". It's a book, published by oreilly, with some 14 articles by open source heros.

    If you read it you get a very good impression of the whole open source project:

    • history (Berkeley unix, history of hackers, RMS)
    • mindset, philosophy (RMS, ESR, Larry Wall :-)
    • how a particular project works (apache, mozilla, linux
    • the company-stuff (netscape, cygnus, red hat)

    All in all it makes for a very decent introduction. You get a good overview and you get a foundation of information on which to build your own mindset regarding open source. It filled in quite a few blanks for me, so I like to recommend it hearthily! greetings, Reinout

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    Reinout van Rees
  2. Cathedral and the Bazaar by John+Fulmer · · Score: 2

    It may be trendy, but the dang thing just makes so much sense, and not only in computer software terms.

    Eric Raymond really pointed out the obvious, which is easy to see AFTERWARD.....

    jf

  3. The LaTeX Companion by crumley · · Score: 2

    Since nobody has mentioned it yet, I am nominating The LaTeX Companion.

    Its a really nice read about my favorite document preparation system.

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