The Software Freedom Law Center's introduction to the legal issues surrounding the use of FOSS.

Eric Raymond's response to Bezroukov's "Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research"

Another critical review of Eric Raymond's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."

This article presents an approach to combine the best of the Open Source and proprietary software development worlds.

CNN.com article about the spread of Linux in offices.

This paper makes the political and ethical case for the adoption of free software by Community Aid Abroad and other members of Oxfam International.

Scientific illustration and analysis of socio-technical approaches that make up a collaborative phenomenon termed Open Source Intelligence, which goes beyond the collaborative coding of software.

"Hackers crack the code of a new chip and post the design secrets on the Web. The chip's maker, instead of suing, holds fire. What gives?"

This paper calls for the support of open standards and non-proprietary software in civil activities, such as public education, taxes, and patent and grant proposals.

A feature story from the Washington Monthly.