Vaidhyanathan, Siva. “Open source as culture -- culture as open source.” Open source Jahrbuch 2005, June 2, 2005.

Summary: A short history of the free-software movement (here programmatically miscalled “open source”), written as a panegyric in turn-of-the-century academic jargon (‘valorize’, ‘privilege’ (as a verb), ‘empowered’). The article also includes a brief but clear explanation of the relationship between software freedom and copyright. There is nothing new here, but it's a reasonable starting point for bringing readers who are academics up to speed.