What 20 books would you put in the library?

[Kevin D. Clark]

Ted Roche writes:

> A local library would be interested in hosting a representative sample 
> of books about Open Source. What books would you recommend?

_Hackers_
Steven Levy

_Just For Fun_
Linus Torvalds

_Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age_
Paul Graham

_Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the
Digital Age_
Steven Levy

_Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity_ 
Lawrence Lessig

_TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1_
W. Richard Stevens
(get volume 2 if you want to dig into some real code)

_Programming Perl_
Larry Wall

_The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an
Accidental Revolutionary_
Eric S. Raymond

Several of the zillion books that comes with a CD/DVD that shows you
how you install Linux.


Regards,

--kevin
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