History of Free Software movement
Free Software Activist
CPython Core developer
Director, Python Software Foundation
Fedora Cloud Engineer
Who am I?
What is Free Software?
Let us look at 1950s
Access to computers—and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works—should be unlimited and total.
Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!
Hacker Ethic
All information should be free.
Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.
PDP-1
Story of chess
Spacewar
Let us go to 1970s
carriage return
as passwords
TECO
Ctrl+R
Emacs
Unix
Symbolics and LMI
The change in the Software World
Story of a Printer
GNU & the FSF
Cygnus, Your GNU Support
Michael Tiemann
The Story of the Kernel
Red Hat Linux distribution
1994 Mark Ewing
Bob Young’s ACC Corporation
August 11, 1999, Red Hat went public
In November, acquired Cygnus
And the story continues ...
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History of Free Software movement
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