The History of Free Software
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The document discusses the history of free and open source software. It begins with Richard Stallman founding the Free Software Foundation in the 1980s and developing the GNU operating system as an alternative to proprietary Unix. It then covers Linus Torvalds developing the Linux kernel in 1991, allowing GNU to be combined with Linux to create a fully functional free operating system. Finally, it briefly discusses the rise of free software distributions and web browsers, different free software licenses, and additional sources to learn more about the history and development of free and open source software.
The History of Free Software
- 1. The History of Free Software Sebastian Krzyszkowiak dos@dosowisko.net http://dosowisko.net/ http://dosowisko.net/fshistory.pdf
- 4. Agenda ● What is „Free Software”? ● How it all started? ● GNU – 100% Free Operating System – Copyleft - GPL – Linux ● Free Software in real life ● ...and more
- 5. Free? The word "free" in our name does not refer to price; it refers to freedom. First, the freedom to copy a program and redistribute it to your neighbors, so that they can use it as well as you. Second, the freedom to change a program, so that you can control it instead of it controlling you; for this, the source code must be made available to you. Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation) February 1986
- 6. Free.
- 7. Free.
- 8. Meet Richard
- 9. Meet Richard
- 10. Meet Richard :(
- 11. Meet Richard :)
- 12. Meet Richard
- 13. Meet Richard :(
- 14. Meet Richard
- 15. Meet Richard
- 16. Meet Richard Richard Matthew Stallman
- 17. GNU
- 19. GNU GPL ● Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program, for any purpose ● Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish. ● Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor ● Freedom 3: The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others. By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. The Free Software Definition https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
- 23. Linux Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things). I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-) Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi) PS. Yes – it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi- threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.
- 25. The Cathedral & The Bazaar
- 27. Web Browsers
- 28. Web Browsers
- 29. Extras ● Free Software vs. Open Source – FLOSS ● GNU GPLv3 ● GPL vs. LGPL vs. AGPL vs. BSD ● Free Hardware
- 30. Summary
- 32. Additional Sources ● https://fsf.org/ ● https://lkml.org/ ● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-source_ ● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux
- 33. Q&A
Editor's Notes
- #2: Questions at the end Say hello to...
- #6: The word "free" does not refer to price; instead, it refers to freedom. the freedom to copy and redistribute freedom to change a program to match your needs
- #7: bir
- #8: It's not against.
- #9: … Go back to 80s
- #10: staff software programmer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab) Hacking – playful cleverness
- #11: jammed
- #12: No such thing as software copyrights „ THE PRINTER IS JAMMED” Someone came and made printer happy
- #19: 1983 GNU Manifesto – 1985 - to outline the GNU purpose and explain the importance of free software
- #20: 1983 GNU Manifesto – 1985 - to outline the GNU purpose and explain the importance of free software
- #21: GPL GPL GPL GPL GPL Copyleft
- #25: 1991, Helsinki, Finland Initially a terminal emulator In the middle of December 1992 – GNU GPL
- #26: Debian
- #28: Ubuntu privacy issues
- #29: February 1998
- #31: This speech
- #32: Why it's important As tools Ethics Business models – like music industry
- #35: Now's the time to speak up