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| 1960s | |
| - software produced by academics or corporate researchers often shared as a public domain | |
| - hardware selling bussines, source code distributed with the software itself | |
| - 1969 ARPANET simplified the exchane of software code | |
| 1970s | |
| - programming language compilers matured and evolved | |
| - growing software industry, increasing it's cost | |
| - first restrictive licenses | |
| - AT&T distributed early version of UNIX to government and academic researchers for no cost but with no permissions to modify and redistribute | |
| 1980s | |
| - UNIX become widespread, AT&T stopped the free distribution and charged for system patches | |
| - companies starting to charge money for software licenses | |
| - Richard Matthew Stallman, Harvard student (70), MIT programmer (71), AI research assistant (75) | |
| - Centronics with lots of signals, "paper jammed" signal was not working | |
| - NDA - ('84) GNU Project, GNU operating system | |
| - '85: GNU Manifesto | |
| '85: Free Software Foundation | |
| '87: GNU C Compiler | |
| '89: GNU GPL v1.0 | |
| '89: most of the GNU OS is ready | |
| - '89: Cygnus Solutions founded to prove that the free software can work as a bussiness model | |
| 1990s | |
| - Linus Torvalds created Linux kernel (minix - freax) | |
| - stock exchanges run Linux kernel | |
| Red Hat | |
| - founded in 1993, Bob Young, Mark Ewing | |
| - first Red Hat Linux distribution in 1994 | |
| - bussiness model - "support, service", stabilize and make accessible | |
| - Red Hat became publicly traded company 1999 and acquired Cygnus solutions | |
| - Red Hat Linux was released every 6 months (the only source of revenue) | |
| - 2003 subscription model - no upgrade fee | |
| - 2006 Red Hat listed NYSE | |
| - 2012 Red Hat reached $1bn revenue | |
| - 2014 more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies used Red Hat solutions | |
| The Internet | |
| - "Everybody should be able to run his own server and share documents they want" -- Sir Tim Bernes-Lee | |
| - first version of WWW, HTTP (decentralized protocol), HTML in 1998 | |
| - Open Standards > Open Source Software - communication must be standardised | |
| - free to access, implement, run and use | |
| Creative Commons | |
| - Open Source Initiative founded in 1998, Creative Commons founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig | |
| - "open source for content" | |
| - schools, governments | |
| Milestones | |
| - 2014 Microsoft appointed new CEO - Satya Nadella, .NET Core code released publicly | |
| - 2015 Red Hat and Microsoft announced partnership | |
| Contribute! | |
| - https://openalt.cz/2019/ | |
| - https://www.devconf.info/cz/ | |
| - https://fosdem.org/2020/ | |
| - https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes | |
| - https://research.redhat.com/thesis/ | |
| - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhYMRtqvMg8 | |
| - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbMP1JcGBmSEMVMWQZO1WToQzIHWQXGsb |
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