Articles Introducing College Students to Open Source?

Posted by Cliff on Friday January 3, 2003 @10:13AM from the gateway-publications dept.

Michael Cray asks: "I'm an MIS student and a pro-Linux / Open Source guy. I've been trying to find an article, that serves as an introduction to Open Source, which my Professor could use in class. To me, Open Source is more philosophical than technical. Since this is an IDS/MIS course called 'Management of Information Systems', the professor picks articles from journals like the Harvard Review to be used in class. So if you are a teacher, what article would you use to present 'open source' in a college class room?" What articles have you found that would serve as a good introduction to Open Source? Documents like The Cathedral and the Bazaar and the GPL would be good intro pieces, but are there other pieces that might flesh out these two as an introduction to Open Source?

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practicality, not religion by ceejayoz · 2003-01-03 11:41 · Score: 3, Insightful

To me, Open Source is more philosophical than technical.

You'd likely be better off presenting it as a practical alternative, not a quasi-religion.

There are good, legitimate, practical reasons for using OSS - don't gloss over them in favor of dogma.