Free Software movement & current days
PyConf Hyderabad, 2017
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What is Free Software?
License decides everything
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Let us look at 1950s
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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
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Story of chess
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Spacewar
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Let us go to 1970s
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carriage return
as passwords
TECO
Ctrl+R
Emacs
Unix
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Symbolics and LMI
The change in the Software World
Story of a Printer
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GNU & the FSF
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The Story of the Kernel
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Fast forward to 2017
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Privacy is a fundamental right
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Signal
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https://ssd.eff.org/
At this point if the government can identify the whistleblower, it is too dangerous to be a whistleblower. If we want to find what the state is doing, so that, we, the people, can have control over it, we need to make whistleblowers safe. -- RMS
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