Any Good Book Recommendations on the Ethos of Open Source?

[not_io@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

My friend is trying to convince the CEO of their tech company to become open source, he didn't oppose just asked for stuff to read.
Any recommendations for this purpose?

edit: thanks y'all for the great suggestions!

[quazatron@lemmy.world]

The Joy of Linux

[theleadensea@sh.itjust.works]

Walled Culture

[solrize@lemmy.ml]

Not trying to be that guy, but the founding idea of open source was to not have an ethos. The GNU project came with an ethos of something like community enablement, which not everyone liked, so the open source label was invented to describe an approach to software that had technical advantages but was ethos-free.

Anyway though, you might like "The Hacker Ethic" by Pekka Himanen, and (on the free software side) "Free Software, Free Society" by Richard Stallman. The latter is easy to find online but the former might be a bit obscure.

AOSA, The Architecture of Open Source Applications, is a technical book but a very good one.

[_thebrain_@sh.itjust.works]

The cathedral and the bizarre by ESR is a must read. http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

[emb@lemmy.world]

Cathedral and Bazaar is one of the classic essays. It's available in book form too.

Free Software, Free Society from RMS is also a foundational text. It's online, but you can buy a hardcopy as well.

I'm sure there are more up to date options, but those are the basics to get started.