I'd also recommend the classic "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" essay by Eric Steven Raymond: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar

I'd also recommend the classic "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" essay by Eric Steven Raymond: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral... From Wikipedia: >In 1998, the essay helped the final push for Netscape Communications Corporation to release the source code for Netscape Communicator and start the Mozilla project; it was cited by Frank Hecker and other employees as an outside independent validation of his arguments. Netscape's public recognition of this influence brought Raymond renown in hacker culture.