Strengthening Your Basics - FOSS A General Introduction by IOSN on Wikibooks
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
“FOSS A General Introduction” serves as an introduction to various aspects and dimensions of FOSS issues, including, FOSS in education, FOSS and government policy, localization, open standards and licensing. This book has been donated to Wikibooks by the International Open Source Network (IOSN) [here] and the UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP) [here].
The Wikibook gives a detailed introduction to FOSS, presents various FOSS Success Stories, discusses Linux, Intellectual Property Rights and Licensing, covers Localization and Internationalization of software and has a Glossary and list of various FOSS Licenses in its annextures. Wikibooks [here] is an open-content textbooks collection initiative and contains information and knowledge on a number of other areas of great importance.
Ever heard of a Bootloader? Its that software thing that boots all that software running on computer hardware. Well why is that so important? Hmm, Bootloaders are really important because if you mess up the Bootloader software on your laptop or PC, you are gonna have a hell of a time getting it fixed, for experts not a problem but for novices, 
I really like all these people who love to contribute their knowledge and time towards educating people about FOSS and Linux specially keeping the end-users safe both legally and through extending appropriate guidance on the use of legal software. Such a successful attempt has been made by Lawrence Rosen in the publication titled, “
