Test 3 - Documentary Flashcards
What is the documentary Revolution OS about?
a documentary film that traces the twenty-year history of GNU, Linux, open source, and the free software movement.
Who is the creator of Linux?
Linus Torvald
Who is Richard Stallman (RMS)?
launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation, developed the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and wrote the GNU General Public License.
What is the Homebrew Computer Club
was an informal group of electronic enthusiasts and technically minded hobbyists who gathered to trade parts, circuits, and information pertaining to DIY construction of computing devices
What is the Open Letter to Hobbyists?
was a 1976 open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the rampant copyright infringement of software taking place in the hobbyist community, particularly with regard to his company’s software.
In the letter, Gates expressed frustration with most computer hobbyists who were using his company’s Altair BASIC software without having paid for it. He asserted that such widespread unauthorized copying in effect discourages developers from investing time and money in creating high-quality software. He cited the unfairness of gaining the benefits of software authors’ time, effort, and capital without paying them.
What does GNU stand for?
is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix!
What is Copyleft?
is the practice of offering people the right to freely distribute copies and modified versions of a work with the stipulation that the same rights be preserved in derivative works created later
Who is Michael Tiemann?
is vice president of open source affairs at Red Hat, Inc. and CTO of Red Hat
What is Cygnus?
Company founded in 1989 by John Gilmore, Michael Tiemann and David Henkel-Wallace to provide commercial support for free software. Its tagline was: Making free software affordable.
What is the GNU GPL (General Purpose License)?
is a widely used copyleft/free software license, which guarantees end users the freedom to run, study, share and modify the software, written by Richard Stallman
What is the GNU/Linux naming controversy?
is a dispute between members of the free software community and open-source software community over whether to refer to computer operating systems that use a combination of GNU software and the Linux kernel as “GNU/Linux” or “Linux”
What is the Apache HTTP Server?
is free and open-source cross-platform web server software developed by Brian Behlendorf.
What is The Cathedral and the Bazaar?
is an essay, and later a book, by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux kernel development process and his experiences managing an open source project, fetchmail. It examines the struggle between top-down and bottom-up design.
What are the indirect influences of The Cathedral and the Bazaar being published?
- helped the final push for Netscape Communications Corporation to release the source code for Netscape Communicator and start the Mozilla project;
- Increased Linux userbase
What happened with Netscape?
Netscape’s executives released the source code for Netscape’s browser, one of the signal events which made open source a force to be reckoned with by business executives, the mainstream media, and the public at large. This lead to Firefox being created by the Netscape source code.
