Required Reading for Monday April 4 / Tuesday April 5

• Chapter 21 in Computer, Ethics and Society by Ermann and Shauf, 3rd edition.

  The Rise of India - offshore outsourcing software development

• Measured in Productivity Gains, The Computer Is a Disappointment by LOUIS UCHITELLE

• A Look at the Economics of Open Source by Robert L. Glass, CACM, Feb 2004 - handed out in class.

• Subject to Change!

Links for Further Study

• Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)? Look at the Numbers! by David A. Wheeler, March 2005

• The Computer Industry by George Gilder

• About Linus Torvalds key developer of Linux

• Hacking the Business Climate for Network Security by Bruce Schneier, Counterpane Internet Security

• The future of software may be a huge Internet-borne cloud of electronic offerings from which users can choose exactly what they want, says Ludwig Siegele\

• MORE TO COME!