Currently reading...
Mar. 14th, 2004 08:33 pm
Managing Open Source Projects: A Wiley Tech Brief, Jan Sandred, Wiley Books
My rating: 7/10
A book that claims to marry business and Open Source; I think the author is fairly ambitious. Jan Sandred has a lot of nice inside stories, and has very poignant quotations to boot. I guess I like Open Source literature that reasons that the success of FLOSS has complex underpinnings, and is willing to discuss it.

Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, Glyn Moody, Allen Lane
My rating: 7/10
Glyn Moody has got most of the parts of the revolution surprisingly right. Mostly anecdotal, and is certainly well balanced in acknowledging the contributors. This book has some nice one liners that have now become lore. Sometimes the book cites without attribution.
There, that makes my Open Source reading list so far a nice collection: ( Read more... )