History
I. Early History
- printer / AI lab
- software sharing commune
- reclaiming movement for freedom
II. Early Structure
- Free Software Definition
- Free Software Doundation
- Copyleft
- GPL
- Strong orientation as social movement
- GNU Project and Replacement for UNIX
III. Moving Beyond GNU
- BSDs, Minix, and the HURD
- X Windows and struggles with commericialization and openness
- Linux Torvalds and Linux
- Distributions
- Apache Web Server
IV. Open Source
- frusteration with free software personality and posturing with
business interests and the late 90s tech bubble and dotcom boom
- Eric Raymond and CatB, Bruce Perens
- OSD Creation
- Motivations epmhasizing the pragmatic beneifts of ree software
- Opposite of a schism
V. Going Mainstream (ups and downs)
- Breakthrough was with Netscape Navigator releasing code to their
browswer
- Many other companies ended up getting carried away in the boom
- Dotcom bust
- Remergence of people who care about liberty and freedom
- Social movements again
- Governments in Europe/S. America/etc.
VI. Adapting FOSS Principles
- Many groups have been explicity inspired and have created lots of
other "open source ___" (medicine, invention, literature, music,
etc).
- Often inspired by ideas of:
- massively parallel production
- large volunteer communities
- high levels of "user innovation" and lead user
- buildings most frequently on licenses of FOSS
- copyleft and gpl style legal mechanisms
- in some cases, making mroe normatively sort of descriptions and
calls for free things
VII. What does FOSS production means?
- A social movement?
- An adherence to some conception of openness
- An attempt to harness certain types of work
- An attempt to challenge/change the nature of production in a
depper/more general way
