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• Government Policy Toward Open Source Software (Washington: AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, 2002), ed. by Robert William Hahn (PDFs with commentary at brookings.org)

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• The Performance of Open Source Applications: Speed, Precision, and a Bit of Serendipity (2013), ed. by Tavish Armstrong
  • HTML with commentary at aosabook.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Open Advice: FOSS, What We Wish We Had Known When We Started (c2012), ed. by Lydia Pintscher (multiple formats with commentary at open-advice.org)
• Getting Started With Open Source Development: A Book for the Community by the Community (first edition; Markham, ON: IBM Canada, 2010), by Rachna Kapur, Mario Briggs, Tapas Saha, Ulisses Costa, Pedro Carvalho, Raul F. Chong, and Peter Kohlmann (PDF with commentary at ibm.com)
• Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution (2006), ed. by Chris DiBona, Danese Cooper, and Mark Stone (multiple formats at archive.org)
• How Open is the Future? Economic, Social and Cultural Scenarios Inspired by Free and Open-Source Software (2005), ed. by Marleen Wynants and Jan Cornelis (PDF in Belgium)
• Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy (online edition, c2005), by Ron Goldman and Richard P. Gabriel (HTML with commentary at dreamsongs.com)
• Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution (1999), ed. by Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, and Mark Stone (HTML at oreilly.com)
• Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project (second edition, 2017), by Karl Fogel (multiple formats with commentary at producingoss.com)
• The Architecture of Open Source Applications (2 volumes, 2011-2013), ed. by Amy Brown and Greg Wilson
  • HTML with commentary at aosabook.org
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
• Breaking Barriers: The Potential of Free and Open Source Software for Sustainable Human Development - A Compilation of Case Studies from Across the World (2006), by Nah Soo Hoe (PDF at apdip.net)
• Free/Open Source Software: A General Introduction (c2004), by Kenneth Wong and Phet Sayo (multiple formats with commentary at iosn.net)
• Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman (Boston: GNU Press, 2002), by Richard Stallman, ed. by Joshua Gay, contrib. by Lawrence Lessig
  • multiple formats at fsf.org
  • PDF at notabug.com
• Jenkins: The Definitive Guide (Creative Commons edition, c2011), by John Ferguson Smart (multiple formats at archive.org)
• After the Software Wars (2009), by Keith Curtis (page images at Google)
• Open Science, Open Data, Open Source: 21st Century Research Skills for the Life Sciences (2017), by Pedro L. Fernandes and Rutger Vos (illustrated HTML at github.io)
• Pro Git (second editions, 2014), by Scott Chacon (HTML with commentary at git-scm.com)
• Peer Participation and Software: What Mozilla Has to Teach Government (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by David Booth (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (Creative Commons-licensed PDF, c2008), by David Bollier (PDF with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar (prepublication version, with commentary), by Eric S. Raymond (multiple formats at catb.org)
• Open Life: The Philosophy of Open Source, by Henrik Ingo, ed. by Helen Wire, trans. by Sara Torvalds (PDF and HTML with commentary at openlife.cc)
• The Definitive Guide to Plone, by Andy McKay (illustrated HTML in Germany)
• Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets, by Julian Smart and Kevin Hock, contrib. by Stefan Csomor (PDF at phptr.com)
• Open Source Development With CVS (electronic editions), by Karl Fogel and Moshe Bar (multiple formats with commentary at red-bean.com)
• Open Source Security Tools: Practical Applications for Security, by Tony Howlett (PDF at phptr.com)
• Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software, by Sam Williams
  • HTML at oreilly.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Subversion Version Control: Using the Subversion Version Control System in Development Projects, by William A. Nagel (PDF at phptr.com)

• Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure (ca. 2016), by Nadia Eghbal (PDF and Epub with commentary at Ford Foundation)

• Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing (2004), by Andrew M. St. Laurent (PDF files with commentary at oreilly.com)

• Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law (2005), by Lawrence E. Rosen, contrib. by Lawrence Lessig (PDF files with commentary at rosenlaw.com)

• The Journal of Open Source Software (2016-) (full serial archives)

• Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008), by Christopher M. Kelty (HTML and PDF with commentary at twobits.net)

• International Migration and Human Rights: The Global Repercussions of U.S. Policy (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2009), ed. by Samuel Martínez (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• The Dilemmas of Laissez-Faire Population Policy in Capitalist Societies: When the Invisible Hand Controls Reproduction (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, c1997), by Marc Linder (PDF files at Iowa)
• U.S. Commitment to International Population Planning (address to 1984 International Conference on Population, published as U.S. Dept. of State Current Policy #604; 1984), by James Lane Buckley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Transnational Social Policies: The New Development Challenges of Globalization, ed. by Daniel A. Morales-Gómez (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• The New Basis of Civilization (New York and London: Macmillan, 1907), by Simon N. Patten (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families (1997), by Australia. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HTML and PDF in Australia)

• Reducing the Barriers to International Trade in Accounting Services (Washington: AEI Press, 2001), by Lawrence J. White (PDF with commentary at AEI)

• Institutionalizing Unsustainability: The Paradox of Global Climate Governance (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2012), by Hayley Stevenson (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)
• The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Mark Kenneth Jaccard (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Climate Alarmism Reconsidered (2004), by Robert L. Bradley (PDF with commentary at IEA)
• What has the Kyoto Protocol Wrought? The Real Architecture of International Tradable Permit Markets (Washington: AEI Press, 1999), by Robert William Hahn and R. N. Stavins (PDF with commentary at AEI)
• Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate (Chicago: Heartland Institute, c2008), by S. Fred Singer (PDF at heartland.org)
• Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (2014), by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF files with commentary at ipcc-wg2.gov)
• Climate Change 2001: Mitigation, by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (HTML and PDF in Norway)
• Climate Change 2007: Mitigation, by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF files with commentary at mnp.nl)

• Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), ed. by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Global Survey on Internet Privacy and Freedom of Expression (in English, French, and Arabic; Paris: UNESCO, 2012), by Toby Mendel, Andrew Puddephatt, Ben Wagner, Dixie Hawtin, and Natalia Torres (PDF with commentary at unesco.org)
• Good Data (Theory on Demand #29; Amsterdam: Institute for Network Cultures, 2019), ed. by Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt, and Monique Mann (multiple formats with commentary at networkcultures.org)

• Challenges to Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Economic and Policy Responses (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2019), ed. by Michael Anderson, Michele Cecchini, and Elias Mossialos (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

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