A Bibliography of Reading and Resources
This page is a list of readings in topics covering Ethical Source, its philosophical foundations, the history and ideology of Open Source, and a range of closely related literature. Presented in no particular order.
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Ethical and Legal Issues
- The Muddy Ethics of Free Software, Gardiner Bryant
- Programmer Power: Prying Open “Software Freedom” by Kyle Mitchell
- Ethics in Geo
- Can I stop “evil people” from using my [Open Source] program? No
- “Open Source is Broken”, Don Goodman-Wilson
- “Bringing Back Ethics to Open Source”, Tobie Langel
- “Building Ethical Software Under Capitalism”, Deb Nicholson
- Ruined by Design, Mike Monteiro
- “Don’t Get Distracted”, Caleb Thompson
- The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It, New York Times
- Dear GitHub 2.0, anonymous
- “Breaking the ICE: How future tech employees could influence government contracts”, Erin Paulson
- “Drawing the Ethical Line on Weaponized Deep Learning Research”, Carlos E. Perez
- “Do we need to rethink what free software is?”, Matthew Garrett
- “Free as in…?”, Luis Villa
- The Paradox of Tolerance, Wikipedia
- “Top 10 FOSS legal developments in 2019”, Mark Radcliffe
- Twitter musings on tech and ICE, Luis Villa
History and Critique of Open Source
- What does “open source” mean in 2021?
- ”#wontfix: endorsements can’t fix the Open Source Definition”, Kyle E. Mitchell
- “The Californian Ideology”, Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron
- “Rebuttal of the Californian Ideology”, Louis Rossetto
- “Do Artifacts Have Politics?”, Langdon Winner
- For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution, Christopher Tozzi
- Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks, Andrew L. Russell
- Hackers: Heroes of the computer revolution, Steven Levy
- The Open Revolution: Rewrting the Rules of the Information Age, Rufus Pollock (eBook here)
- Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, Glyn Moody
- Free Innovation, Eric von Hippel
- Don’t Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles — and All of Us, Rana Foroohar
- “The Complicated Legacy of Stewart Brand’s ‘Whole Earth Catalog’”, Anna Wiener
- “Open Source Under Attack: How we, the OSI and others can defend it”, Chris Aniszczyk, Max Sills, Michael Cheng
- “Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog, the book that changed the world”, Carole Cadwalladr
- “The Whole Earth Catalog Effect”, Steven Kotler
- Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, Bruce Perens (ed)
- “The Social Meaning of the Personal Computer: Or, Why the Personal Computer Revolution Was No Revolution”, Bryan Pfaffenberger
- Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, Paulina Borsook
- Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger
- “The Meme Hustler”, Evgeny Morozov
- “The Economics of Open Source”, C J Silverio
- “The culture war at the heart of open source”, Steve Klabnik
- “What comes after ‘open source’”, Steve Klabnik
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