[TriLUG] Open Source book

Cristóbal Palmer cristobalpalmer at gmail.com
Mon Aug 13 21:09:20 EDT 2007


On 8/13/07, Matthew Sites <matthew at computermc.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good book that explains the open source model
> and why it works?

This was required reading for one of my classes my senior year in Paul
Jones' Information Science class at UNC:

Von Hippel, Eric. "Democratizing Innovation." Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.

Available as a free(-ly licensed under Creative Commons) PDF here:
http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/books.htm

The above link also includes links to purchase the dead tree version.

Cheers,
-- 
Cristóbal M. Palmer
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