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  •   Preface  
  •   Book Notes   
  •   Battle -- Microsoft looks for competitors and finds Linux.    
  •   Image -- The Rag Tag Army of Volunteers, Wizards, Hackers, Gurus, and Assorted Random Computer Geniuses.   
  •   College -- How the Publish or Perish World of Academia Created Free Software and then Betrayed It.    
  •   Quicksand -- The Last Battle that Sealed the Fate of Institutions Everywhere.    
  •   Outsider -- The Rise of the Ronin and the Birth of Linux.   
  •   Growth -- What Began as a Hobby Grew Into a Business and Then a Crusade.    
  •   Freedom -- The Price of Liberty Is An Eternal Debate About What It Means.    
  •   Source -- Use the Source, Luke.   
  •   People -- How to Make Generalizations About Thousands, Even Millions of People.    
  •   Politics -- Communism Meets Libertarism In A No Holds Barred Match.   
  •   Charity -- If A Gift Falls From The Sky Without a Tax Deduction, Is It Charity?   
  •   Love -- Can This Marriage Between Millions of Brilliant, Iconoclastic Individuals Survive?    
  •   Corporations -- Can Free Software Avoid the Claustrophobia of Cubicles and the Legal Strictures of Corporate Structure?    
  •   Money -- How To Get By With A Little Help From Your Friends.    
  •   Fork -- When Two Minds Diverged In the Open Woods, We Took Both of Them, And That Made All of the Difference.     
  •   Core -- Turning A-List Programmers Into the A-Team.    
  •   T-Shirts -- Softwear versus Software.     
  •   New -- Why Free Software Is Just a Ho-Hum, Been-There, Done-That Thing for the Smokestack Industries.    
  •   Nations -- The Omnipotence the State Meets the Omniscience of the Noosphere.     
  •   Wealth -- Would You Rather Have A Million Dollars or A Computer That Doesn't Crash?    
  •   Future -- Will Success Spoil Rock Solid Code?     
  •   Glossary -- Some Terms From the Book.     
  •  Bibliography -- Some References.