Open-Source: No Winners No Losers
Open-Source: No Winners No Losers Table of contents:- The Roots of an Unlikely Revolution Rules of the Road: Licences, Freedoms, and Responsibilities A Global Commons — and Its Growing Pains Beyond Software: Open Hardware and the Road Ahead Conclusion The Roots of an Unlikely Revolution It started not with a manifesto, but with a memo. In 1969, engineers at AT&T's Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, quietly produced a small, elegant operating system they called UNIX. Nobody could have predicted that this internal tool would eventually seed a global movement touching billions of devices, powering the world's critical infrastructure, and reshaping how human beings think about collaboration and shared knowledge. The academic community, led by the University of California, Berkeley, developed a significant variant called the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), while AT&T continued developing UNIX under the names "System III" and later "System V...
