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A Department of Defense report that recommends a roadmap to adopt open source and open standards. It claims that this is in the US national interest, and is also in the interest of national security.

Talks about a Department of Defense report that advocates Open Source Software and Methods.

The top 100 moments in the history of Linux (according to Linux Journal)

This memo describes why PINES decided to build their own Open Source ILS

Online papers about research into the Open Source movement.

This article talks abotu open source as a new means of production.

Open Source Everywhere Abstract: "Software is just the beginning … open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. Get ready for the era when collaboration replaces the corporation."

A short article about Linux, open source, and seeds.

"This paper will examine the use of open source methodologies in the development of software and in the development of farmers’ movements against seed patents and the increasing control of seed stock." (from introduction).

Abstract Volunteers eager to help disaster victims have begun to draw on open source models of organization to mobilize and coordinate vast resources from around the world. This paper investigates two such groundbreaking efforts, involving responses to Hurricane Katrina and to the South East Asian tsunami. The study sheds light on how these organizations evolve so rapidly, how leaders emerge and confront challenges, and how interactions with traditional, more hierarchical disaster recovery efforts unfold. Lessons from these early efforts show how they can be improved, and also point to the need for more research on networked non–state actors that are playing increasingly prominent roles.

Abstract: In this paper we suggest that historical studies of technology can help us to account for some, perplexing (at least for traditional economic reasoning) features of open source software development. From a historical perspective, open source software seems to be a particular case of what Robert C. Allen has termed "collective invention." We explore the interpretive value of this historical parallel in detail, comparing open source software with two remarkable episodes of nineteenth century technical advances.

Included in the ToC of this book by James Surowiecki is a chapter(?) titled "Putting the pieces together : the CIA, Linux, and the art of decentralization."

open standards++ "The Free Standards Group is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the use of free and open source software by developing and promoting standards."