[SLUG] FreeBSD

Ian Eade at IGM Web Design ieade at igmwebdesign.info
Wed Jun 16 20:49:01 BST 2004


Having promised to provide some links to research material at last
nights SLUG meeting here is some. I have taken this lot directly from
Dissertation project. It covers all sorts of things, but most of it is
interesting and relevent to IT and Open Source

Open Source Research Community
URL http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/

First Monday
URL http://firstmonday.org/

Both are expanding and current

Ian




Amazon. (undated) “Windows XP Professional Edition”
URL
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005O45B/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1/02
6-9288432-4312423
Accessed 12 August 2003

Apache. (undated a) “How Apache Came to Be”
URL http://httpd.apache.org/ABOUT_APACHE.html
Accessed 28 June 2003

Apache. (undated b) “Known Problems in Clients” 
URL http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/known_client_problems.html
Accessed 23 June 2003

Arief, B.; Gacek, C.; Lawrie, T. (2001) “The Many Meanings of Open
Source (CS-TR-737)” Newcastle, England: Department of Computer Science,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Ayres, R. (1997) “The essence of professional issues in computing” Great
Britain: Prentice Hall.

Benson, C.; Engen, D.; Frishberg, G, N; Mankoski, A.; Pederson, N.;
Smith, S. (2001) “GNOME Usability Study Report”
URL http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/ut1_report/report_main.html
Accessed 11 June 2003

Behlendorf, B. (undated) in “Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source
Revolution”, DiBona. C.; Ockman, S.; Stone, M. (eds), America: O’Reilly
& Associates. p.152-154,  (1999) 

Bezroukov, N (1999) “A Second look at the Cathedral and the Bazaar”;
First Monday, volume 4, issue 12; 
URL http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_12/bezroukov/
Accessed 23 June 2003
(Peer reviewed article)

Charles, C (2003) “The OpenOffice.org Unofficial FAQ v0.1.8a: How is it
properly called?” 
URL http://www.bytebot.net/openoffice/faq.html#General10
Accessed 11 August 2003

CodeWeavers (undated) “CrossOver Office 2.0.1” 
URL http://www.codeweavers.com/products/office/index.php
Accessed 20 August 2003

Dalle, Jean-Michel & Paul A. David. (2003) “The Allocation of Software
Development Resources in 'Open Source' Production”, in Free / Open
Source Research Community, Online Papers (undated);
URL http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/dalledavid.pdf
Accessed 14 July 2003
(Stanford University)

Debian (2003a) “Debian Social Contract” 
URL http://www.debian.org/social_contract/
Accessed 21 August 2003

Debian (2003b) “Getting Debian from the Internet” 
URL http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist/
Accessed 18 August 2003

DiBona. C.; Ockman, S.; Stone, M. (eds). (1999) “Open Sources: Voices
from the Open Source Revolution”. America: O’Reilly & Associates.

Feller, J. & Fitzgerald, B. (2002) “Understanding Open Source Software
Development”. America: Addison-Wesley.

Fink, F. (2003) “The Business and Economics of Linux and Open Source”.
America: Prentice Hall.

Free / Open Source Research Community. (undated a) “Home Page”
URL http://opensource.mit.edu/ 
Accessed 14 June 2003

Free / Open Source Research Community. (undated b) “Online Papers”
URL http://opensource.mit.edu/online_papers.php
Accessed 18 June 2003

Free Software Foundation. (2002a) “Free Software Foundation”
URL http://www.fsf.org/fsf/fsf.html
Accessed 18 August 2003

Free Software Foundation. (2002b) “Gnu Lesser General Public License”
URL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
Accessed 18 August 2003

Free Software Foundation. (2003a) “Frequently Asked Questions about the
GNU GPL”
URL http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney
Accessed 17 August 2003

Free Software Foundation. (2003b) “GNU General Public License”
URL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
Accessed 20 August 2003

Free Software Foundation. (2003c) “Licenses”
URL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html
Accessed 20 August 2003

Gil, M. (2003) “The Vi Lovers Home Page”
URL http://www.thomer.com/vi/vi.html
Accessed 19 July 2003

Harvey, G. (2003) “GNU Emacs”
URL http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
Accessed 19 July 2003

Hafner, K.; Lyon, M. (1998) “where wizards stay up late, the origins of
the internet” America: Touchstone.

HotScripts.com. (undated) “Welcome to HotScripts.com”
URL http://www.hotscripts.com
Accessed 15 August 2003

Krishnamurthy, S. (2002) “Cave or Community? An Empirical Examination of
100 Mature Open Source Projects”, in Free / Open Source Research
Community, Online Papers (undated);
URL http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/krishnamurthy.pdf
Accessed 14 July 2003
(University of Washington)

Linux Format. (undated) “Subscribe to Linux Format magazine” 
URL
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=i
ndex&req=viewarticle&artid=5
Accessed 18 August 2003

Marick, B. (undated a) “Staked Application Testing” 
URL http://www.testingcraft.com/staked-application-testing.html
Accessed  3 August 2003

Marick, B. (undated b) “A Case Study of Failure Improvement” 
URL http://www.testingcraft.com/wv-case-study/failure-improvement-1.html
Accessed  3 August 2003

Marick, B. (undated c) “The AbiTest Project” 
URL http://www.testingcraft.com/abitest.htm
Accessed  4 August 2003

Microsoft. (undated a) “Order your copy of Office XP today” 
URL http://shop.microsoft.com/officexp/default.asp
Accessed 22 July 2003

Microsoft. (undated b) “Retail Pricing for Office XP Suites” 
URL http://www.microsoft.com/office/howtobuy/pricing.asp
Accessed 12 July 2003


Microsoft. (2000) “Usability Research”
URL: http://www.microsoft.com/usability/lab.htm
Accessed 20 July 2003

Microsoft. (2001a) “Office for Windows 95”
URL: http://www.microsoft.com/office/previous/ofc95brch/specs.asp
Accessed 12 July 2003

Microsoft. (2001b) “System Requirements” 
URL: http://www.microsoft.com/office/evaluation/sysreqs.asp
Accessed: 12 July 2003

Microsoft. (2003a) “Basic Principles of Software Source Code Licensing”
URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/Articles/LicensingBasics
.mspx
Accessed 26 June 2003

Microsoft. (2003b) “Usability Engineering: Articles”
URL: http://www.microsoft.com/usability/publications.htm
Accessed 20 July 2003

Moody, G. (2002) “Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source revolution”
Great Britain: Penguin Books.

Netscape. (1998) “Netscape Announces Plans To Make Next-Generation
Communicator Source Available Free On The Net” 
URL http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease558.html
Accessed 4 June 2003

Nuvolari, A. (2003) “Open Source Software Development: Some Historical
Perspectives”, in Free / Open Source Research Community, Online Papers
(undated);
URL http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/nuvolari.pdf
Accessed 14 July 2003
(Eindhoven University of Technology)

Oanda. (2003) “Currency Converter”
URL http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic?user=onlineconversion&lang=en
Accessed 12 July 2003

OpenOffice.org (undated a) “Download Central” 
URL http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/download.html
Accessed 16 August 2003

OpenOffice.org (undated b) “FAQs: Which licenses does the OpenOffice.org
project use?” 
URL http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licensing.html#1
Accessed 21 August 2003


OpenOffice.org (undated c) “FAQs: What is OpenOffice.org?” 
URL http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-overview.html#1
Accessed 11 August 2003

OpenOffice.org (undated d) “FAQs: Why should we say ‘OpenOffice.org’
instead of simply ‘OpenOffice’?” 
URL http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-other.html#7
Accessed 11 August 2003

OpenOffice.org (undated e) “Legacy Build: OpenOffice.org 1.0.3.1”
URL http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.0.3/index.html
Accessed 20 August 2003

OpenOffice.org (undated f) “Licenses”
URL http://www.openoffice.org/license.html
Accessed 20 August 2003

OpenOffice.org (undated g) “Public Documentation License”
URL http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.html
Accessed 20 August 2003

OpenOffice.org (undated h) “System Requirements for OpenOffice.org 1.1” 
URL http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs_11.html
Accessed 18 August 2003

Open Source Initiative (undated a) “Certification and Mark program” 
URL http://www.opensource.org/docs/
Accessed 11 June 2003

Open Source Initiative. (undated b) “History of the OSI”
URL http://www.opensource.org/docs/history.php
Accessed 18 June 2003

Open Source Initiative (undated c) “Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL
1.1)” 
URL http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mozilla1.1.php
Accessed 11 June 2003

Open Source Initiative. (undated d) “The Open Source Case for Hackers”
URL http://www.opensource.org/advocacy/case_for_hackers.php
Accessed 18 June 2003

Open Source Initiative. (undated e) “The Open Approved Licenses”
URL http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
Accessed 18 June 2003

Open Source Initiative. (undated f) “The Open Source Definition Version
1.9”
URL http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
Accessed 18 June 2003

Open Source Initiative. (undated g) “Why ‘Free’ Software is too
Ambiguous”
URL http://www.opensource.org/advocacy/free-notfree.php
Accessed 18 June 2003

Osorio-Urzua, C. (2002) “A contribution to the understanding of illegal
copying of software: empirical and analytical evidence against
conventional wisdom”, in Free / Open Source Research Community, Online
Papers (undated);
URL http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/osorio.pdf
Accessed 14 July 2003
(MIT, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez)

Petrie, M. (2003) “A Potted History of WordStar”
URL http://www.wordstar.org/wordstar/history/history.htm
Accessed 19 July 2003

Pfaff, B.; David, K. (1998) “Society and open source”
URL http://www.msu.edu/user/pfaffben/writings/anp/oss-is-better.html
Accessed 11 June 2003

Pressman, S. R. (1997) “Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach”
4th ed. America: McGraw-Hill.

Raymond, S. E. (1999) “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and
Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”. America: O’Reilly.

Raymond, S. E. (2001) “The Cathedral & The Bazaar”. 2nd ed. America:
O’Reilly.

Raymond, S. E. (2002) “Goodbye, ‘free software’; hello, ‘open source’”
URL http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-source.html
Accessed 01 July 2003

Rothfuss, G. J. (2002) “A Framework for Open Source Projects”, in Free /
Open Source Research Community, Online Papers (undated).
URL http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/rotfuss.pdf
Accessed 14 July 2003
(MS Thesis, University of Zurich)

Resource Index. (undated) “Welcome to resourceindex.com”
URL http://www.resourceindex.com
Accessed 15 August 2003

Salus, P. (1994) “A Quarter Century of Unix” America: Addison-Wesley.

Scarborough Linux User Group. (undated) “Get Linux”
URL http://scarborough.lug.org.uk/getlinux.php
Accessed 18 August 2003

Schmidt, D. C.; Porter, A. (2001) “Leveraging Open-Source Communities To
Improve the Quality & Performance of Open-Source Software”, in Feller J;
Fitzgerald, B.(eds), Making Sense of the Bazaar: Proceedings of the 1st
Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering (2001).

Schnoll, S. (2001) “The History of Internet Explorer”
URL http://www.nwnetworks.com/iehistory.htm
Accessed 4 July 2003

SourceForge.net. (undated) “Home Page”
URL http://sourceforge.net/
Accessed 14 August 2003

Stallman, R. (1998) “Linux and the GNU Project”
URL http://www.fsf.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html
Accessed 22 July 2003

Sun Microsystems. (undated) “Java Technology Licensing”
URL http://www.java.com/en/download/license.jsp
Accessed 12 August 2003

Thomas, T. (2002) “Why Free Software usability tends to suck”
URL http://mpt.phrasewise.com/discuss/msgReader$173
 Accessed 01 July 2003

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