📚 Open Source

Code shared with its source: the licensing debates, the commons it built, and the businesses it surprised.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject open source software in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Cathedral and the Bazaar	Eric S. Raymond	1999	10
	Version control with Git	Jon Loeliger	2009	10
	The hacker ethic	Pekka Himanen	2000	9
	Rebel code	Glyn Moody	2001	9
	Arduino for Dummies	John Nussey	2013	9
	Open Sources 2.0	Chris DiBona	2005	8
	Open source	Fadi P. Deek	2007	8
	Producing Open Source Software	Karl Fogel	2005	7
	The Go Programming Language	Alan A. A. Donovan	2015	7
	How Linux Works	Brian Ward	2004	6
	GitHub for Dummies	Sarah Guthals	2019	6
	Open Sources	Chris DiBona	1999	5
	CMS security handbook	Tom Canavan	2011	5
	Ansible	Lorin Hochstein	2014	5
	Sozialkapital und Open-Source-Netzwerke	Miriam De Blasi	2014	5
	Mastering OpenStack	Omar Khedher	2015	5
	Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame	Will McGugan	2007	4
	Android application development	Rick Rogers	2009	4
	Beginning Arduino	Michael McRoberts	2010	4
	Redis cookbook	Tiago Macedo	2011	4
	Beyond BIOS	Vincent Zimmer	2011	4
	SciPy and NumPy	Eli Bressert	2012	4
	Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend	Lorenzo Bettini	2013	4
	High Performance Python: Practical Performant Programming for Humans	Micha Gorelick	2014	4
	For fun and profit	Christopher J. Tozzi	2017	4
	Free and Open Source Software in Modern Data Science and Business Intelligence	K. G. Srinivasa	2017	4
	Free for All	Peter Wayner	2000	3
	Regular expression recipes	Nathan A. Good	2004	3
	Apache Derby	Paul Zikopoulos	2005	3
	NumPy Cookbook	Ivan Idris	2012	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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