The open-source, free-software movement, and what it means for you
- The hacker culture of MIT in the 1960s-1970s
- Steven Levy, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1984).
- The first computer song: Daisy Bell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk
- Richard Stallmann
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stallman
- Copyleft; Free Software Foundation
- EMACS editor
- GNU operating system -> GNU/Linux
- Stallman: the concept of Libre software:
youtu.be/SNBMdDaYhZA - Stallman: is Linux free from viruses?
youtu.be/Kfli_e923o4 - Stallman in Kerala, 2006:
www.financialexpress.com/news/kerala-logs-microsoft-out/175487/0
- Linux.
- The Origins of Linux - Linus Torvalds:
youtu.be/WVTWCPoUt8w - Dialects of GNU/Linux;
- Ubuntu
- Mint
- Debian
- Fedora
- Many others...Distrowatch.com
- The Origins of Linux - Linus Torvalds:
- The Code / Hannu Puttonen 2002.
- Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999).
- Open Office and LibreOffice
- openoffice.org,
made by Sun, but bought by Oracle.
Oracle closes OpenSolaris. - libreoffice.org The Document Foundation
- openoffice.org,
- Is all this free stuff any good?
- Should I change to Linux?