Don's Bibliography of Ethical Source Reading and Resources

Here's my personal reading list over topics including Open Source, its history, and its future. Presented in no particular order.

Top Sources

• The Ethical Source Definition
• Ruined by Design
• The Hippocratic License
• License Zero
• https://opensource.org/faq#evil

Moral Problems

• "Don't Get Distracted", Caleb Thompson
• The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It, New York Times
• Dear GitHub 2.0, anonymous
• "Breaking the ICE: How future tech employees could influence government contracts", Erin Paulson
• "Drawing the Ethical Line on Weaponized Deep Learning Research", Carlos E. Perez

Philosophical and Legal Musings

• "Do we need to rethink what free software is?", Matthew Garrett
• "Free as in…?", Luis Villa
• The Paradox of Tolerance, Wikipedia
• "Top 10 FOSS legal developments in 2019", Mark Radcliffe
• Twitter musings on tech and ICE, Luis Villa

History and Critique of Open Source

• "#wontfix: endorsements can’t fix the Open Source Definition", Kyle E. Mitchell
• "The Californian Ideology", Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron
• "Rebuttal of the Californian Ideology", Louis Rossetto
• "Do Artifacts Have Politics?", Langdon Winner
• For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution, Christopher Tozzi
• Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks, Andrew L. Russell
• Hackers: Heroes of the computer revolution, Steven Levy
• The Open Revolution: Rewrting the Rules of the Information Age, Rufus Pollock (eBook here)
• Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, Glyn Moody
• Free Innovation, Eric von Hippel
• Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles — and All of Us, Rana Foroohar
• "The Complicated Legacy of Stewart Brand’s 'Whole Earth Catalog'", Anna Wiener
• "Open Source Under Attack: How we, the OSI and others can defend it", Chris Aniszczyk, Max Sills, Michael Cheng
• "Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog, the book that changed the world", Carole Cadwalladr
• "The Whole Earth Catalog Effect", Steven Kotler
• Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, Bruce Perens (ed)
• "The Social Meaning of the Personal Computer: Or, Why the Personal Computer Revolution Was No Revolution", Bryan Pfaffenberger
• Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, Paulina Borsook
• Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger
• "The Meme Hustler", Evgeny Morozov
• "The Economics of Open Source", C J Silverio
• "The culture war at the heart of open source", Steve Klabnik
• "What comes after 'open source'", Steve Klabnik

Heroes

• "Ethical Source at WeTransfer", Bastiaan Terhorst
• Douglas Crockford's JSON license, Wikipedia

Talks and Essays by Don

• https://dev.to/degoodmanwilson/open-source-is-broken-g60
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H66-MFR_rgE
• https://www.greaterthancode.com/ethical-open-source
• https://video.fosdem.org/2020/UB5.230/ethicsoss.webm