Call for Articles on Open Source and Free Software

Sarah (sadukie) writes: "Hello! My name is Sarah, and I'm the Reviews Editor for ACM Crossroads. Our magazine is for students by students related to things in computing. We have run into a shortage of articles for our upcoming Open Source and Free Software issue, and we're asking to see if anyone in the community may be able to help us out by contributing. More information on this can be obtained by emailing Bill Stevenson, our editor in chief. Thanks to anyone who can help us!"

The Cathedral And the Bazaar

[Anonymous Coward]

Reprint this [tuxedo.org]. I imagine it's under the GPL or something, so it shouldn't cost you anything in royalties.

you could reprint this...

[renehollan]

You could reprint this: this [slashdot.org].

However, it is more of a first person account of a visit by RMS to educate developers in a commercial setting, about the requirements of the GPL. It is non-technical and dispels many myths about RMS being unreasonable.

More details about my article

[renehollan]

It was published here about a year and a half ago.

Well, it doesn't concentrate on Free Software and Open Source per se, but it does recount the experience we had when we invited RMS to address developers at a former employer or mine regarding GPL complience -- primarily because we were starting to aggregate GPL code in a product we were developing.

It's more of a first person article, describinng the experience of having RMS address such a group in a commercial setting. I wrote it to dispel many of the myths surrounding RMS: I found him quite friendly and civil: hardly the ranting zealot has has the (unfair) reputation to be.

I had planned to write a followup article about some of the pitfalls we faced (like some of the ways that the GPL hindered us in getting development code out to third party contractor developers, and the inability to generally free many of our enhancements to GPL code: our customers get source, of course, but generally don't redistribute).

Re:More details about my article

[forgottengentleman]

Impressive! I had actually been looking for that article a couple months ago, but it was for some reason difficult to find.