As my list of pointers to free books has started to grow I decided to put it on my web site so I could easily point my friends to it. Here it is, in no particular order for the time being. I have several additional titles that are not within easy reach (the bookmarks, that is). Please do share if you gathered similar pointers.
- Specifying Systems by Leslie Lamport
- Innovation Happens Elsewhere by Ron Goldman and Richard P. Gabriel
- Writers’ Workshops and the Work of Making Things by Richard P. Gabriel
- Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community by Richard P. Gabriel
- Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems by Richard P. Gabriel
- Security Engineering by Ross Anderson
- Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software
- On Lisp
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar
- How to prepare your input (a cookbook!)
- A New Kind of Science
- The Autodesk File
- Handbook of Applied Cryptography
- Graph Theory
- Thinking Forth
If I was a stock broker I wouldn’t buy shares in any traditional (i.e., dead-tree) publishing house right now.