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Free For All - How Linux and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High Tech Titans,
Peter Wayner
1. Acknowledgments
2. Version Information
3. Battle
3.1 Sleeping In
3.2 Suits Against Hackers
4. Lists
4.1 Free Doesn't Mean Freeloading
5. Image
6. College
6.1 Speaking in Tongues
6.2 Cash Versus Sharing
7. Quicksand
7.1 Breaking the Bond
7.2 In for a Penny, in for a Pound
7.3 AT&T Notices the Damage
8. Outsider
8.1 A Hobby Begets a Project that Begets a Movement
8.2 A Different Kind of Trial
9. Growth
9.1 The Establishment Begins to Notice
9.2 Making it Easy to Use
10. Freedom
10.1 Free Beer
10.2 Copyleft
10.3 The GNU Virus
10.4 Is the Free Software Foundation Anti-Freedom?
10.5 The Evolution of BSD
10.6 The Price of Total Freedom
10.7 The Synthesis of "Open Source"
11. Source
11.1 The Bishop of the Free Marketplace
11.2 They Put a Giant Arrow on the Problem
11.3 How Free Software Can Be a Bazaar or a Cathedral
11.4 Open Source and Lightbulbs
11.5 The Source and the Language that We Speak
12. People
12.1 Icons
12.2 Flames
13. Politics
14. Charity
14.1 Charitable Open Source Organizations
14.2 Gifts as a Cultural Imperative
15. Love
16. Corporations
16.1 Fat Cats and Alley Cats
16.2 The Return of the Hardware Kings
17. Money
17.1 Cygnus--One Company that Grew Rich on Free Software
17.2 How the GPL Built Cygnus's Monopoly
17.3 Snitchware
17.4 Bounties for Quicker Typer-Uppers
18. Fork
18.1 Forks and the Threat of Disunity
18.2 BSD's Garden of Forking Paths
18.3 Flames, Fights, and the Birth of OpenBSD
18.4 Temporary Forks
18.5 A Fork, a Split, and a Reunion
19. Core
19.1 Debian's Core Team
19.2 Apache's Corporate Core
20. T-Shirts
20.1 World Domination Pretty Soon?
21. New
21.1 Shareware Is Not Open Source and Open Source Isn't Free
21.2 Would You License a Car from These Guys?
21.3 Other Professions Were Open from the Start
21.4 Copyright, Tool of Dictators
22. Nations
23. Wealth
23.1 Wealth and Poverty
24. Future
25. Glossary
26. Bibliography
27. Other works by Peter Wayner
Endnotes
Endnotes
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Free For All - How Linux and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High Tech Titans,
FREE FOR ALL. Copyright 2000 by Peter Wayner.
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