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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 For Fun and Profit, Christopher Tozzi offers an account of the free and open source software (FOSS) revolution, from its origins as an obscure, marginal effort by a small group of programmers to the widespread commercial use of open source software today. Tozzi explains FOSS's historical trajectory, shaped by eccentric personalities — including Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds — and driven both by ideology and pragmatism, by fun and profit.Tozzi examines hacker culture and its influence on the Unix operating system, the reaction to Unix's commercialization, and...ISBN : 9780262036474

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Author

Tozzi, Christopher

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262341189

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Engineering, Computer Science