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Viewpoint: Why "Open Source" Misses the Point of Free software.

In this article the author discusses open source software. A history of the free computer software movement is given beginning in 1983 including the launch of the development of GNU (GNU's Not Unix), a free operating system. Topics include the ethical reasons behind the development of GNU and a grou...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 6; pp. 31 - 34
Main Author: Stallman, Richard
Format: Opinion
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jun2009
Subjects:
Open source software
Computer software
Computer programming
History
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