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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).
    • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer_Revolution
    • www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/hackers 
     
  • 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 Code / Hannu Puttonen 2002.
  
  
  
• Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999).
  
  
  • www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Command_Line
• Open Office and LibreOffice
  • openoffice.org,
    made by Sun, but bought by Oracle.
    Oracle closes OpenSolaris.
  • libreoffice.org
  The Document Foundation
• Is all this free stuff any good?
• Should I change to Linux? 
  • Will I be able to do serious work? Yes.
  • What happens if it breaks? Plenty of online help.
  • Where's the manual? Here.  And much more.
  • The example of Kerala.