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Open-Source andFree Software
Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.
When we call software “free,” we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes.
Richard Stallmann - Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
Categories of free and nonfree software - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html
Microsoft Word
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Winamp
SQLite
jQuery(MIT, BSD, WTFPL)
Firefox(MPL)
Linux(GPL)
PGP
Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Survey and Study: http://flossproject.org/report/FLOSS_Final5all.pdf
Linus Torvalds - Prologue to The Hacker Ethic: http://gepid.upf.br/midiateca/uploads/037575878XHacker.pdf
survival
social life
entertainment
Eric S. Raymond - How To Become A Hacker: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
Martin Fowler - OpenSourceResearch: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/OpenSourceResearch.html
One the interesting aspects of the open source world, particularly for us, is how it's proving to be a fascinating research community. Open source projects come in many guises, but a fair number of them are taking an idea and programming around it to see where it goes and whether it has value. That's a notion that sounds strange if you believe that design and programming are separated, but makes a lot of sense if you accept that they are tied together.
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