-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:11:11PM -0500, Mike wrote: > Mithras wrote: > > I'm also looking for a book, a late Xmas gift for my dad who's been > > getting into Linux. I'm confident he has enough newbie literature to > > help him when I'm not around (I last recommended Thinking Unix to > > him), so I thought a book about the free software culture would be > > good for him now. Wasn't a book about the history of free software > > reviewed on /. a few months ago? > > O'Reilly put out a book called "Open Sources" early 1999 - there may have > been another edition by now.
I've got Open Sources (January 1999) on my bookshelf, and found it an interesting book. There is also Peter Wayner's "Free For All", a book "that explores Free Software, the history, and where it's going". I don't know any more about the book, but a link to a review has been sitting in one of my Slashdot sidebars for a while, so that may be the one Mithras is thinking of. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 iD8DBQE6VNq9B+GG7A6DEUARAhauAKDbHzuF/OLmRwU8JRF8zceXtp04sACg82Zx C+9scR+rIFOhBfXleefk88I= =jIg0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
