Help me write about open source

[augied]

Hi,
For my english/american studies class, I have been tasked with the incredibly ambiguous assignment of writing about a person or subject from the 20th century. I decided to do a biography of Richard Stallman/an overview of the open source movement. In order to make this paper not only about open source, bu open source itself, I have decided to let you people do the work for me.

Seriously now, if you know of any good resources I should check out, or have your own comments, please let me know. It doesn't have to be a very long paper, so I only really need the basics. But I'd like to have a few good insights to keep it interesting.

If anyone is interested (and it turns out ok) I'll post my paper here when I'm done.

Augie

[jpkeisala]

There is good documentrary about Open Source movement and Linux. I cant remember name now but perhaps someone else can point it out. Wikipedia is a good start but you probably already know that. :)
Good luck with your study

[koenn]

Richard Stallman/an overview of the open source movement
That should be interesting, because Richard Stallman doesn't really like open source. He prefers Free Software.

[tbroderick]

Seriously now, if you know of any good resources I should check out
Augie

www.google.com

[koenn]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
http://www.gnu.org/

and/or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSource
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Raymond
http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd


you want me to do the copy and paste as well or can you manage ?