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The July/August IEEE Software [paywall warning] is a special issue on software as business, which includes one article that is Open Source oriented, and one that is "code sharing" oriented. Here are the articles: Guest Editors' Introduction: Software as a Business Software Industry Business Models Matching Open Source Software Licenses with Corresponding Business Models Sharing Source Code with Clients: A Hybrid Business and Development Model Developing Cloud Business Models: A Case Study on Cloud Gaming

Two books have recently been published on open source technology for education: Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (2009) George Siemens, Peter Tittenberger, University of Manitoba. 61p. Free-as-in-beer, creative commons license. Wiki for book . Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace (2009) Edited by Susan d'Antoni and Catriona Savage, UNESCO. 172p. 12 Euro!! [ OK, if UNESCO wants to sell dead-tree books, fine I guess, but they definitely should be giving away the digital versions of the books too. ] These new releases both deal with Open Educational Resources (OER). For more in OER, see the Resources list below. The tables of contents of these two books are farther below. Resources: Open Educational Resources (Wikipedia entry) Open Educational Resource Commons Open Educational Resources (OER) and Libraries (2009) Paula J. Hane. InfoToday Open Educational Resources in India’s national development (2009) MSV Kumar. Open Learning: The Journal of Ope...