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- Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!: In-depth review and analysis of the many quantitative reasons to use open source software, with statistics from a variety of recent surveys.
- A Linux Advacate's Resource: This site includes numerous links and original content useful for Linux avocacy, especially to corporate customers.
- Apple - Public Source: Home of all Open Source Projects at Apple Computer.
- Arctic Penguin Open Source Solutions: Contains some informative articles about Open Source software, success stories, and news
- Asian Open Source Centre: News and promotion of open source activities in Asia.
- Atviras Kodas Lietuvai: Non-profit public organization that works to promote the usage of Free and Open Source software in Lithuania.
- Bishamon-tenno's Open Source Page: Explains one person's experiences with open source.
- Debian's social contract: Contains the Debian Free Software Guidelines, which are regarded as compliance rules for free software by many others besides Debian package maintainers.
- Development, Ethical Trading, and Free Software: Makes political and ethical case for adopting free software by Community Aid Abroad and other members of Oxfam International. Applies generally to development agencies and other groups with like values.
- Europa Union - Information Society: Provides a brief introduction to open source software, applications, programs, and case studies.
- Free Software Advocacy: Focuses on connections between free software and community development and on free software in Australia.
- Free Software Consortium: Promote free software and related services.
- Free Software Foundation (FSF), GNU Project: Non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating restrictions on copying, redistributing, understanding, and modifying computer programs. GNU Project was begun to develop a complete free Unix-like operating system.
- Free Software Foundation Europe: Web site of the FSF Europe, an organization dedicated to Free Software activities in Europe. As the official sister organization of the Free Software Foundation in the United States, it will build its activities around the GNU Project although it won't be limited to it.
- Free Software Shop: Information about Free Software movement for novices.
- Go Open Source: South African Open Source awareness campaign promoting Open Source software within households and small businesses.
- Home--Berkman Center for Internet and Society: A research program advocating the openness of the Internet.
- IP Wars: Examining, chronicling, and battling the censorship attempts of intellectual property laws.
- International Open Source Network: A United Nations Development Programme advocacy site for free and open source software, focused on the Asia-Pacific region.
- Linux Today: Emmett Plant - The Welcome Wagon: Urges initiative and good manners to promote open source.
- Microsoft Boycott - The Alternative: Index of replacements for Microsoft software, services and hardware. Includes reviews and outside links.
- MozillaZine: General information on the Open Source Netscape project.
- Newsforge - Anti-Open Source Lobbyists Need Love, Too: Article describing the philosophy and hidden agenda of anti-open source think tanks.
- Nonprofit Open Source Initiative: Promotes adoption of Open Source Software (OSS) in the nonprofit/NGO sector.
- Open Source Advisory Service: Provides guidance about free and open source software, and about related standards.
- Open Source Community Node: Community portal providing a discussion forum, articles and blogs.
- Open Source Software: The Future of Software Development in Pharmaceutical Companies: Final year project for the MSc in Management at the University of Bath's School of Management by James Clary & Valerio Motti
- Open Source and These United States: by C. Justin Seiferth, Maj USAF; a study for the Air Command and Staff College Air University. Military implications of Open Licenses.
- OpenCode: Promotes open software, research, and content in cyberspace. Includes a reference archive of some open licenses used by other organizations.
- OpenDeveloper.org -- Building Open Sites: A `resource` for building Open Source Web sites, covering Linux, BSD, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl. OpenDeveloper.org is an independent Web site about open source development of Web sites -- by the community, for the community.
- Opensource.ac.uk: A site devoted to the role of Open Source software within the UK academic community.
- Promote Opensource.org: Dedicated to advocating the use of open source and free software.
- Social Software: A `group` of volunteers based in the UK which hopes to find ways of bringing the benefits of Open Source Software to the voluntary / community sector.
- Software in the Public Interest, Inc.: A non-profit organization which was founded to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software.
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Eric S. Raymond's seminal paper analysing why open source works so well; followup papers "Homesteading the Noosphere", "The Magic Cauldron" and "The Revenge of the Hackers"; and comments and criticisms from third parties.
- The Halloween Document: Microsoft are getting very worried indeed about competition from Open Source Software such as Linux. This leaked internal memo, courtesy of Eric Raymond, reveals all -- including the extreme lengths Microsoft is willing to go to squash its competition.
- The New Scientist - The Great Giveaway: Introduction to Open Source, OpenCola and Copyleft.
- The Open Source Page: The Open Source Initiative is dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source trademark for the good of the community. The phrase `open source' has been registered as a certification mark. You can examine the Open Source Definition, which defines some essential properties that Open Source licenses will have. You can read about software that qualifies and our branding program.
- The OpenScience Project: The Open Science Project is an Organization devoted to providing open source scientific software.
- Tom Alsberg's online freedom/liberty page: Personal page regarding free software and online freedom in general.
- User Friendly the Comic Strip: Amusing strip following the antics of Columbia Internet and its employees. Frequently touches on Open Source, Linux, hacker culture, and holy wars.
- Vovida.org: Communications community site dedicated to providing a forum for open source software used in datacom and telecom environments.
- WebReference Update: Scholars Discuss Open Code Benefits: Fans of free software and music found some allies this weekend who said if lawmakers don't understand technology they shouldn't try and regulate it.
- Why Commercial Software Makes no Sense: A paper on why supporting proprietary commercial software, as typified by current software vendors, is inherently an illogical process.
- mozilla.org: Home of Mozilla, the Netscape based open source browser.
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