For Fun and Profit
A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution
$63.41
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
9 April 2024
Summary
The free and open source software movement, from its origins in hacker culture, through the development of GNU and Linux, to its commercial use today.
In the 1980s, there was a revolution with far-reaching consequences—a revolution to restore software freedom. In the early 1980s, after decades of making source code available with programs, most programmers ceased sharing code freely. A band of revolutionaries, self-described “hackers,” challenged this new norm by building operating sy…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262551786 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262551780 |
| Author: | Christopher Tozzi, Jonathan Zittrain |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 9 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm |
| Series: | History of Computing |
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About The Author
Christopher Tozzi
Christopher Tozzi is Assistant Professor of History at Howard University and a freelance writer. He is the author of Nationalizing France’s Army- Foreign, Black, and Jewish Troops in the French Military, 1715-1831.
Jonathan L. Zittrain is George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is also Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law School Library, and Cofounder and Director of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
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