I think people are missing the poster's point. he or she might be asking for the ultimate list in open source programming books. Other than searching for the

I think people are missing the poster's point. he or she might be asking for the ultimate list in open source programming books. Other than searching for the universities that have set up programs to develop open source programming books and obtain their own maintained lists; I know no other way to complete the task. For example, there is a group of Canadian Universities that has an overall program to develop open source textbooks that happens to include computer science.