eContact! 11.3 — Open Source for Audio Applications

eContact! 11.3 — Logiciels audio « open source » / Open Source for Audio Application (September 2009) [Return to issue…]

Travel Guide: Bibliography / Suggestions for Further Reading

Politics 

• GNU Operating System. “GNU General Public License (GPL).” http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

  “The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works.” (GNU site)

• GNU Operating System. “Philosophy of the GNU Project.” http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html

  “A series of articles describing the philosophy of the free software movement, which is the motivation for our development of the free software operating system GNU.”

• Stallman, Richard [aka RMS]. “The GNU Manifesto.” Free Software Foundation, Inc., v. from 27 November 2008. http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html

Analysis

• Raymond, Eric Steven [aka ESR]. The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an accidental revolutionary. Thyrsus Enterprises, 2000 (v 3.0). http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar [Published in print by O’Reilly (Revision 1.51, 31 August 1999).]

  Essays looking at two somewhat opposing models of software development.

Culture and History 

• Levy, Steven. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Dell Publishing, 1994 (with a new Afterword).

  An excellent overview of the hacker community and generations from its open source beginnings in the late 1950s with the “true hackers” at MIT to the “hardware hackers” and the advent of the personal computer to the “game hackers” of the 1980s. Covers the changing politics, economics and morals of the community.

• Raymond, Eric Steven [aka ESR] (ed.). The Jargon File. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html Last accessed (v 4.4.7) 22 May 2009. [Version 4.0.0 was published as The New Hacker’s Dictionary, 3rd edition (MIT Press, 1996)]

Software and Technical

• Hudson, Andrew. Ubuntu Linux Starter Kit. http://www.informit.com/title/0672330601.
• Hyde, Adam. FLOSS Manuals. http://en.flossmanuals.net.  A collection of free manuals for free software initiated by Adam Hyde and written and maintained by the community.
• Kreidler, Johannes. loadbang: Programming Electronic Music in Pure Data. User manual (available in German and in an English translation). Wolke Verlag, 2008. [Also available online at http://www.pd-tutorial.com]
• Moore, Adrian and Dave Moore. “Adapting to Change: Working with digital sound using open source software in a teaching and learning environment.” Journal of Music, Technology and Education 1/2 and 1/3 (November 2008), pp. 113–120. Available on the Sheffield website at http://www.shef.ac.uk/content/1/c6/04/14/88/adapting-to-changer1.pdf
• Phillips, Dave. “Computer Music and the Linux Operating System: A Report from the Front.” Computer Music Journal 27/4 (Winter 2003), pp. 27–42. Available on the CMJ website at http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/comj/27/4
• Various. “Open Source.” Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
• Various. “History of Free Software.” Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_software