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An online book freely available, “Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution” was first published in January 1999.

It includes chapters that have become classics of the Open Source literature:

“A Brief History of Hackerdom” (Eric S. Raymond)

In 2001, Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, gave an 85 minute presentation at the Computer History Museum in California. It is an interactive story with several interventions from the public and examples of good humour. It is worth viewing Torvalds, -then 31 years old, and ten years after starting Linux, presenting the evolution of Linux as something he sees as natural.

That's the title of a brief article (2008) that presents the five things that Torvalds has learned from managing the most successful Open Source project: Linux. They are:

-Find people you can trust

-Be trustworthy yourself

-Be honest, sometimes painfully honest

-You also have to let the others get their say

-A combination of bluntness and honesty leads to the best code ending up in Linux

John Mark Walker wrote an article "There is no Open Source Community" in 2006 where he argued that the growth of the Open Source Software is due to the internet which allowed the economies of scale to succeed. He points that the trends that result in cheap software commodities will maintain their expansion, so will the Open Source footprint and that the view that there is "a core group of altruistic companies and true believers driving Open Source forward is simply false".