Target of this WikiReader is to inform the reader on the topics of open source and open content. To prevent conflicts free software will also be included.

There are no plans about a date for the final release or a print edition.

Preview: PDF (660kB), only 60% of the content yet, but there's already enough work to do.

Contents 1 not yet added 1.1 Stubs 1.2 Maybe added 2 Content 2.1 Definitions 2.2 Licences 2.3 Important persons 2.4 General movements 2.5 Important Organisations 2.6 Important conferences and expositions 2.7 Free Software 2.8 Free Contents 2.9 In science and universities 2.10 In business

[edit] not yet added

[edit] Stubs

Please enhance them if you want them in

• Collaborative writing
• GNU Manifesto
• Open Content License
• Software in the Public Interest

[edit] Maybe added

add your suggestions please

• OpenBSD

[edit] Content

You may add or change the content. Please make sure that no redirs are listed.

[edit] Definitions

• Open content
• Free software
• Open source
• Source code
• Copyleft
• Open patent
• Open hardware
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar

[edit] Licences

• Software
  • Open-source license
  • free software license
  • MIT License (missing history)
  • BSD license (missing history)
• BSD and GPL licensing
• other content
  • Public Domain
  • GNU Free Documentation License
  • Creative Commons License (stub)
• Non-Free Licenses
  • Copyright (uses parts of Idea-expression divide, maybe add History of Copyright?)
  • Fair use
  • Fair dealing
  • Intellectual property
  • Closed source
  • Shared source
  • Software patent (maybe include Software patents under the European Patent Convention?)

[edit] Important persons

all need better image, at least something like 800x1200 pixel

• Richard Stallman
• Eric S. Raymond
• Linus Torvalds
  • Tux
• Eben Moglen
• Alan Cox (no image)
• Donald E. Knuth
• Bruce Perens (stub)
• Tim O'Reilly (stub, not in yet)
• Larry Wall (Literature missing)
• Guido van Rossum
• Volker Grassmuck (German, Special for WOS3)
• Georg Greve (German, President of FSFEurope and editor of Brave GNU World)
• Atul Chitnis (India)
• Brian Behlendorf (from Apache)
• Miguel de Icaza (GNOME)

[edit] General movements

• Hacker (really keep it?)
• Hacker community (stub)
• Hacker culture (stub)
• Hacker Manifesto (stub)
• Open source movement

[edit] Important Organisations

• GNU (needs bigger image Image:Gnu-head-sm.jpeg)
• Open Source Initiative (stub: Open Source Definition)
• Open Source Development Network (missing logo)
• Free Software Foundation (missing logo)
• Free Software Foundation Europe (missing logo)
• Free Software Foundation India (missing logo)
• Creative Commons (needs better/bigger graphics; missing logo)

[edit] Important conferences and expositions

• Wizards of OS
• LinuxTag

[edit] Free Software

• operating systems
  • FreeBSD
  • Linux
    • Debian
      • Debian Free Software Guidelines
    • Knoppix
    • Gentoo Linux
• Programming
  • GCC
  • Perl
  • Python
  • PHP
• enduser / desktop
  • Office The Art of Computer Programming
    • Emacs
    • vi (or vim)
    • TeX
    • OpenOffice.org
    • KOffice
  • GUIs
    • KDE
    • GNOME
• Graphics
  • GIMP
  • Blender
• Internet
  • LAMP
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • MySQL
    • PHP
  • Mozilla
  • OpenGroupware.org

[edit] Free Contents

• Open Directory Project
• Wikipedia
• FreeDB
• Project Gutenberg (complete)

[edit] In science and universities

• BSD
• Minix

[edit] In business

• Success of NFS
• Apple with Mac OS X
• Eclipse
• Why are IBM or Novell using Linux?
• Open Source Development Lab
• Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards