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Here is where you can read up on the history of the hacker culture. its relationship with various technologies such as Unix and the Internet.
Note that these are links to on-line versions of books you can buy on paper.
The original book on open-source development; how it works, why it works, and the reasons that the culture evolved around it looks the way it does. Includes an opening essay on the history of the hackers that should be useful background.
Front-line reports by the people who made the history. The essay Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable is an account of the 1993-1994 lawsuit that impaired SCO's IP rights in the System V codebase. The first and last essays in this book are earlier versions of the first and last portions of The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
A work in progress, to be published in September 2003, on the unwritten wisdom of the Unix tradition of programming. Includes a chapter on history that explains the succession of Unixes — AT&T, XENIX, Berkeley, AIX, and Xenix — involved in the SCO lawsuit.
Steven Levy's classic on the history of the early hackers, focusing on MIT and the Internet culture.
A biography of Richard Stallman, one of the key figures in the history of the hacker culture and Unix. He wrote the General Public License under which Linux is issued.
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