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Website with extensive historical sources on copyright, plus interactive timeline, images, etc.

Summary : Michael Feldstein's contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, he writes about how open source projects work from an economic perspective. Drawing on the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase and Harvard economics professor Yochai Benkler, he will provide some perspective on how open source projects manage to defy conventional wisdom about economics and self-interested behavior, and gives some questions that universities can ask when considering whether a particular open source software project is likely to be successful.

Interview with someone who's created an open source stenograpic keyboard emulator for transcription services. I work in transcription so I think this is pretty stinking awesome.

I thought this might fit into the question of open-source business models... Gaming is a huge part of our society and now its blending with open source!

The history on this site was really cool to read. Open source was basically created to dispel the monopolies that were being created by automobile developers.

I've always wondered how it was done. I didn't realize it was so easy. This is a good source for anyone that wants to learn how to make simple flash animations.

The LDS church is member sourcing their new public relations by inviting people to submit their own "Mormon Message" video. The church is inviting people to make use of official LDS media (musical and video recordings, etc.) within their individual creations.

The Harvard Classics as free online open source books. They were advertised that, if read, they would provide an excellent Liberal Arts education. Some are simply selections of the whole books - but it is certainly a good overview! I think that I would prefer to read the whole books, though!

The gutenberg project is an amazing source for online books and I just happened to find a compilation of Edmund Burke's works online.

good digital literacy lab. under consume. search for academic sources and books. also books online.

This goes back to the idea of our dependence on google as our source of all knowledge

I know we're not to our privacy section yet, but this is quite funny! The Onion is *ahem* a reliable news source for this sort of information.

Fascinating and spiritual history of our current version of the LDS Scriptures. There were many many people who worked on the project. The Church got a lot of public input on the making of these scriptures. You might say they are "open source", or that they were made with an agile process. Even the Bible Dictionary was taken from Cambridge University and they let the Church take their Bible Dictionary and make amendments to it.

Helpful source discussing why new religions can emerge

A funny comic strip for the intellectually minded. Randall Munroe, the creator of xkcd must be an open-source kind of guy because he has put something like a Creative Commons (noncommercial, attribution) license on his work.

This is an open source wiki-like record of (eventually) all books ever published. I stumbled across it while looking for information about a book for another class. Interesting.

I loved the comment explaining why E.Coli is used for such experiments (because it is "the 'open source' biology SDK."

Here's a source to read "The Waste Land" by T S Eliot