The Playful Cleverness Reading List

This list of literature was initially born as a companion material to our paper Playful Cleverness Revisited: Open-Source Game Development as a Method for Teaching Software Engineering (presented at the SENSE09 workshop in Kaiserslautern, Germany on March 3, 2009). However, the list will probably be of interest to everyone studying hackers, hacker ethic and free/open-source software.

Books

• BARNES, Peter. Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006 http://www.onthecommons.org
• BENKLER, Yochai. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006 http://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks.pdf
• BERRY, David M. Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source. Pluto Press, 2008

• CASTELLS, Manuel, HIMANEN, Pekka. The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model. Oxford University Press 2004.
• FELLER, Joseph (ed) et al. Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software. MIT Press 2005.
• GOLDMAN, Ron, GABRIEL, Richard. Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy. Morgan Kaufman Publishers 2006. http://dreamsongs.com/IHE/IHE.html
• GRAHAM, Paul. Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age. O'Reilly 2004. Available also at http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
• HIETANEN, Herkko, OKSANEN, Ville., VÄLIMÄKI, Mikko. Community Created Content: Law, Business and Policy. Turre Publishing 2007. http://turre.com/images/stories/books/webkirja_koko_optimoitu2.pdf
• HIMANEN, Pekka. The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age. Random House Inc. New York, 2001.
• KELTY, Christopher. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Duke University Press, 2008
• KOCH, Stefan. Free/Open Source Software Development. Idea Group, 2005
• LEVY, Steven. Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution. New York, NY: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 2001. Two first chapters are available at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/729
• LESSIG, Larry. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. The Penguin Press 2004. http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/
• LESSIG, Larry. The Future of Ideas. Random House 2001. http://the-future-of-ideas.com
• LESSIG, Larry. Code v. 2.0. Basic Books, 2006. http://pdf.codev2.cc/Lessig-Codev2.pdf
• MARTIN, Brian. Information Liberation: Challenging the Corruptions of Information Power. Freedom Press, London 1999. http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/98il/
• MOODY, Glyn. Rebel Code: Inside Linux and the Open Source Revolution. Perseus Publishing, Cambridge MA 2001
• STALLMAN, Richard Matthew. Free Software, Free Society. Ed. Joshua Gay. GNU Press 2002. http://www.gnu.org/doc/TOC-FSFS.html
• THEOBALD, Robert. The Rapids of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Turbulent Times. Knowledge Systems Inc. 1987.
• TORVALDS, Linus, DIAMOND, David. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary. First Edition, Harper-Collins 2001
• WILLIAMS, Sam. Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software. O'Reilly 2002. http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/
• WILLINSKY, John. The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship. MIT Press 2005. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/willinsky/TheAccessPrinciple_TheMITPress_0262232421.pdf
• WYNANTS, Marleen, CORNELIS, Jan. How Open is the Future? Economic, Social and Cultural Scenarios inspired by Free & Open-Source Software. CrossTalks, VUB Brussels University Press 2005. http://crosstalks.vub.ac.be/publications/Howopenisthefuture/howopenfuture_CROSSTALKSBOOK1.pdf
• Bruce Perens Open Source Series
• O'Reilly Open Books

Articles, papers and reports

• BENKLER, Yochai. Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm. http://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.html
• BERNERS-LEE, Timothy. Net Neutrality: This is serious. 2006 http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/144
• HIMANEN, Pekka. Challenges of the Global Information Society. report for the Committee for the Future in Parliament of Finland 2004. http://www.eduskunta.fi/efakta/vk/tuv/challenges_of_the_globalinformationsociety.pdf
• LEONARD, Andrew. Free Software Project. Salon, 2000. http://dir.salon.com/topics/free_software_project/
• MOGLEN, Eben. Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright. First Monday, Vol. 4, Issue 8, 1999. http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_8/moglen/index.html
• NEWMAN, Nathan. The Origins and Future of Open Source Software. A NetAction Whitepaper 1999. http://www.netaction.org/opensrc/future/
• RAYMOND, Eric Steven. The Cathedral and the Bazaar. O'Reilly 2001. http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
• RAYMOND, Eric Steven. How to become a Hacker. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
• RISAN, Lars. Hackers produce more than software, they produce hackers. http://folk.uio.no/lrisan/Linux/Identity_games/
• SALUS, Peter. The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin. A History of Free and Open Source Software. Groklaw 2006. http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20051013231901859

• SDForum. The Future of Commercial Open Source. Think Tank Summary Report 2006. http://lwn.net/images/pdf/OpenSourceThinkTank2006_FinalReport.pdf

Movies

• Revolution OS. Wonderview Productions 2001 http://www.revolution-os.com/ (the movie is not freely available though)
• Steal This Film. League of Noble Peers 2006/2007. http://www.stealthisfilm.com (both parts are available as torrents)
• Good Copy, Bad Copy. Rosforth 2007. http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/ (available as torrent)

Websites

• Budapest Open Access Initiative. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml
• Creative Commons. http://www.creativecommons.org
• Directory of Open Access Journals. http://www.doaj.org
• Electronic Frontier Foundation. http://www.eff.org
• Foundation for Free Internet Infrastructure. http://www.ffii.org
• Free Art License. http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/
• Free Culture. http://www.freeculture.org
• Free Software Foundation. http://www.fsf.org
• Jargon File. http://www.catb.org/jargon/
• MIT OpenCourseWare. http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
• Open Source Initiative. http://www.opensource.org
• Science Commons. http://science.creativecommons.org