Free for All: How Linux and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans - Hardcover

Wayner, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0756761840 ISBN 13: 9780756761844

Verlag: Diane Pub Co, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Free for All is the story of a group of dedicated software hackers from around the world who, in their spare time, created an "open" operating system that rivals and in many ways surpasses Microsoft's.
Peter Wayner, a writer whose coverage of technology appears frequently in the New York Times and Salon magazine, tells a fascinating tale of how a simple idea - creating and giving away an "open" operating system that people can change and customize - sparked a grass-roots movement among programmers and revolutionized the software business.
Free for All goes behind the scenes, telling us about the creators and users of Linux. Along the way you will meet the leaders of this revolution, including Richard Stallman, who founded the free software movement, Linus Torvalds, the coding genius and Stallman disciple, who became the master and coordinator of the evolving system (and named it after himself), and many others who aided and nurtured the growing free software movement.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Diane Pub Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0756761840
• ISBN 13: 9780756761844
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 340
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