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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

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Author

Tozzi, Christopher; Zittrain, Jonathan

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262036474

Category

computer science

Subjects

Engineering, History, Computer Science

Rating

1 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-25