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Rebel Code by Glyn Moody is a book that I would recommend.
ISBN 0-14-029804-5 (if that helps to find it)
The history of gnu,linux and various open source projects are outlined, a lot of the original and current personalities are also introduced. I found it to be a very good read.
Google is you friend. Use to often to find anything you want, in the line of information. For example: connect to google, and inter the search phrase 'history "open source"'. I got 58,400 returns. Then, it's just of matter on point, click, read.
Besides this, you can do the google search. Also if you are really interested I recommend two movies.
1. Pirates of the Silicon Valley. Which is a movie on how Microsoft came up.
2. RevolutionOS. A movie on Linux with quotes from people like Linux Torvalds, Bruce Perens, RMS, ESR and several others.
You can even download RevolutionOS from ftp://156.17.238.97/pub/filmy/dlugie/
Listed here are two movies, one of them is revolutionOS. The other too is on linux.
It's around 650Megs and I don't know if this is a pirated copy.
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