An Introduction to Open Source Software --- Course Materials

This site provides deliverables produced as a part of the sponsored research The Asia Open Source Software (OSS) Infrastructure Building Program of The Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization (CICC).

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Table of Contents

  1. What is Open Source Software?
  2. OSS Application Fields and Installation of OSS
  3. Major OSS and Distributions
  4. Philosophy and History of Open Source Software
  5. OSS Development and the OSS Community
  6. OSS Business
  7. Case Studies in OSS Business
  8. OSS Government Policy and E-Government
  9. Features of OSS
  10. Issues with OSS
  11. Development Tools
  12. Maintaining Software and Development Examples