Short History of Open Source

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Origins of Open Source

• Free Speech Movement
  
• Ingres and Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD)
  
• Unix and System V
  
• Richard Stallman and “free software”
  
• Eric Raymond and “open source”
  
• Statistics on commercial and community adoption
  
• Government Contracts
  
• DARPA and the Internet
  
• Berkeley Distribution and Ingres
  
• Tapes and Internet
  
• Demand for Enterprise Software
  
• Packaged Software
  
• Microsoft
  
• Linux
  
• Red Hat, JBoss...
  
• Internet and Open Source
  
• Open Source as a Philosophy
  
• GNU and Copyleft
  
• Cathedral vs. Bazaar
  
• OSI
  
• Professional Open Source
  

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