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I consider open source as a software engineering phenomenon, not only social phenomenon -- the idea of free co-development of (probably large) program system on the Internet. So a lot of interesting things about open source are connected with the idea of distributed cooperation. This cooperation is not simple and to me looks much like scientific cooperation. It has a lot of problems, but it proved to be successful in several important areas. This is my personal attempt to survive an information overload in this interesting for me area. The main area of interest are problems of OSS and how they can be solved -- this is mainly research materials to the paper on OSS problems that I am working.
Again this is just research materials and as such they are very raw. I have no time to make them any better...
This is a chronicle and in essence it's an anti-slashdot attempt -- the attempt to filter information, not to add to news stories by stimulation of discussions around news selected by Slashdot founders and their trusted lieutenants. Information can be posted here long after the date it occurred. Content may shrink as the event proved to be not as significant as it was thought initially.
All citations are explicitly for academic review and research only. Copyright related issues are covered separately. There is also a special "Critique of Vulgar Raymondism page" devoted to my paper ;-) A lot of additional material is collected in the Portraits of OpenSource Peoneers, especially in the Linus Torvalds part (it contains a large collection of interviews for example see Linus Torvalds Interviews index; some of early interviews are unique and are no longer available elsewhere on the WEB). See also the thematic index.
Several interesting timelines are available :
LWN 1999 Linux Timeline -- very good. Highly recommended
LWN 1998 Linux in review final version -- very good. Recommended.
For more information see Linux Today -- the major Linux news site.
Nikolai Bezroukov
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