Christopher Tozzi, "For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution "
English | ISBN: 0262036479 | 2017 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 520 KB
English | ISBN: 0262036479 | 2017 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 520 KB
The free and open source software movement, from its origins in hacker culture, through the development of GNU and Linux, to its commercial use today.
In the 1980s, there was a revolution with far-reaching consequences—a revolution to restore software freedom. In the early 1980s, after decades of making source code available with programs, most programmers ceased sharing code freely. A band of revolutionaries, self-described “hackers,” challenged this new norm by building operating systems with source code that could be freely shared. In
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