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| After the Software Wars | |
| Free eBook "After the Software Wars" by Keith Curtis, an 11-year veteran of Microsoft, believes deeply that open source is the future of software. He takes a programmer’s approach in "Software Wars," attempting to systematically build a case that software can help pave the way for a 21st-century renaissance in many fields ranging from artificial intelligence (cars that drive themselves) to the human journey into space (space elevators). | 
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| Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software | |
| In "Two Bits", Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software but also music, film, science, and education. Free Software is a set of practices devoted to the collaborative creation of software source code that is made openly and freely available through an unconventional use of copyright law. Kelty explains how these specific practices have reoriented the relations of power around the creation, dissemination, and authorization of all kinds of knowledge. He also makes an important contribution to discussions of public spheres and social imaginaries by demonstrating how Free Software is a “recursive public”—a public organized around the ability to build, modify, and maintain the very infrastructure that gives it life in the first place. | 
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| Introduction to Free Software | |
| Free eBook "Introduction to Free Software" by Jesús M. González-Barahona, Joaquín Seoane Pascual, Gregorio Robles. What is free software? What is it and what are the implications of a free program licence? How is free software developed? How are free software projects financed and what are the business models associated to them that we are experiencing? What motivates developers, especially volunteers, to become involved in free software projects? What are these developers like? These are the sort of questions that we will try to answer in this book. | 
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| Economic aspects and business models of Free Software | |
| Free eBook "Economic aspects and business models of Free Software" by Free Technology Academy. The course book its focused on the study of Free Software in relation with the private sector and related economic aspects. We analyse the software industry from an economic perspective: how it was affected by software licensed under free conditions and what is its potential for the future. On the other hand, we study how to use Free Software in the private sector, from a development view but also in implementation and migration. | 
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| Getting Started with Open Source Development | |
| Free eBook "Getting Started with Open Source Development" from IBM. This ebook is a good starting point for beginners to the open source world. It is specially written to equip students, and open source enthusiasts with the norms and best practices of open source. You should read this book if you want to: Educate yourself on the objectives of open source, Understand open source software licensing requirements, Get an introduction to the norms followed in the open source world, Join the open source movement and begin contributing. | 
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