Free Software movement & current days
PyConf Hyderabad, 2017
@kushaldas
What is Free Software?
License decides everything
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
The Story of the Kernel
Fast forward to 2017
Privacy is a fundamental right
Signal
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
https://securedrop.org