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Syllabus for Mitch Kapor's Berkeley course on open source
by Scott Granneman Aug 26th 2006
Mitch Kapor, for those of you young'uns who don't know, was the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the killer app that made the IBM PC a must-have, and he's currently leading development of Chandler, a next-gen PIM that should really shake things up once it finally gets released. For our purposes today, however, I want to draw attention to the course that Mitch is teaching at UC-Berkeley on open source. Titled "Open Source Development and Distribution of Digital Information: Technical, Economic, Social, and Legal Perspectives", you can read the entire syllabus (on a wiki, natch) & follow all the links to the class readings. As an adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis who has toyed with the idea of proposing a course on open source, this is certainly a great resource; for those of you just interested in the open source movement as a whole, this is a great compendium of readings that'll keep you busy for a while.
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