Free for All

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Free for All Table of Contents

  • 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.