One of the links that lumpyporridge put up was a great link.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_3/raymond/
It does not focus on security but on 'open source versus closed source ' in general.
It is a great resource.
There is also: The hacker ethic and the spirit of the information age
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Title: The hacker ethic and the spirit of the information age
Author: Pekka Himanen
Site: http://www.hackerethic.org/
Here, the word hacker doesn't refer to computer criminals but what the word originally meant: a person who wants to do something that one is passionate about, something in which one can realize oneself creatively, and something in which one can build things for the good of all. The hacker ethic is a new work ethic questioning the old Protestant ethic.
Perhaps that can help you out with your paper.

Cheers
noODle