The Open Source Movement
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Some Historical Highpoints
- (1970s) Richard Stallman: Free Software Foundation
- GNU (GNU's Not Unix (emacs, gcc, and other system tools)
- (1980s) The Internet (Sharing, open culture)
- Tanenbaum: Minix
- (1990s) Linux (Linus Torvalds) vs. Minix (Andrew Tanenbaum)
- Tim Berners-Lee: The World Wide Web
- Open Source Initiative
- Sun Microsystems: Java
- (2000s) Mozilla, Apache
- Sourceforge
Humanitarian Sofware Efforts
- Martus, Sahana, OpenMRS, Ubuntu
- http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/index.php One Laptop Per Child]
Sourceforge Today
Broader Open Source Initiatives
- Wikipedia, YouTube, Craigslist, Google API
- Open Courseware (MIT, Yale, Google, etc.)
- Open source pharmaceuticals
- Open source intelligence
- Open source hardware
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