The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Eric Raymond describes the process of developing fetchmail through the open-source approach and lays out a number of principles that drive the OSS movement
Free Source as Free Thought: Architecting Free Standards - Steve Mann, First Monday, volume 5, number 1 (January 2000) - proposes the "public park" analogy as a first point of departure from current critical thinking, and as a framework with which to better understand possible conflict of interest in government and education
The GNU Manifesto - Richard Stallman, written at the beginning of the GNU Project to justify and gain support for his development of a free Unix-compatible operating system
Linux: A Bazaar at the Edge of Chaos - Ko Kuwabara, First Monday, volume 5, number 3 (March 2000) - establishes a context for the work of Eric Raymond and his description of the Linux phenomenon, by examining the emerging science of complex adaptive systems pioneered by John Holland, Christopher Langton, Robert Axelrod, among others
The Orbiten Free Software Survey - Rishab Aiyer Ghosh and Vipul Ved Prakash, First Monday, volume 5, number 7 (July 2000) - present a first survey of free software authorship, with the emphasis not on building a census or even a "hall of fame", but on identifying patterns of concentration and distribution of contribution
When Beggars Become Choosers - Kasper Edwards, First Monday, volume 5, number 10 (October 2000) - explores the notion of leadership in open source software development projects