These were made for a University coursework.
Philosophy
- Free Software Foundation
- The GNU Manifesto
- Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright
- Open Source Initiative
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar (and other essays by ESR; highly recommended for potential IT managers)
- Halloween Documents (how Microsoft plans to deal with Free Software)
Software Patents (which are bad)
Homepages of Interesting People
History
- 15 Years of Free Software
- History of UNIX
- Interview with Jon Johansen (he and his father were arrested for distributing software to help make it possible to play DVD videos using Free Software)
- Mozilla (most of Netscape was published as free software; the executives were persuaded by reading The Cathedral and the Bazaar (see above))
- The Linux Counter (statistics about the use of Linux)
- The Free Software Story (Articles from Salon about Free Software)
Future
- Eazel (a company trying to make Free Software easier to use)
- Red Hat Advanced Development Labs (making software to improve Red Hat, which they publish as Free Software)
News and Discussion
Getting Free Software
- GNU
- Freshmeat
- Linux Kernel
- The Gimp (an excellent graphics program)
Operating Systems
- Linux
- FreeBSD (another free Unix)
- HURD (the unfinished GNU kernel)
- The Evil Empire