FOSS A General Introduction

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 FOSS A General Introduction 

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Preface — Introduction — Why FOSS? — FOSS Success Stories — Linux — Intellectual Property Rights and Licensing — Localization and Internationalization — Case Studies — Annex I: Glossary — Annex II: Software Licenses — About APDIP — About IOSN

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• Preface
• Introduction
• Why FOSS?
• FOSS Success Stories
• Linux
• Intellectual Property Rights and Licensing
• Localization and Internationalization
• Case Studies
• Annex I: Glossary
• Annex II: Software Licenses
• About APDIP
• About IOSN

[edit] Information

This book is donated by the International Open Source Network and UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP) to the community. The original publication by: Author: Kenneth Wong and Phet Sayo © UNDP-APDIP, 2004, 60 pages ISBN-10: 983-3094-00-7 is located at: http://www.iosn.net/foss/foss-general-primer/foss_primer_print_covers.pdf This wikibook is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License and Creative Commons Attribution License 2.5

[edit] NOTES

• Since all the footnotes appear on the appropriate pages, we can use the {{note}} and {{ref}} templates to link the footnotes properly.
• A translation of this book to Chinese is available at [1]. Translation of other books in this series are coming soon.