ASSIGNMENT 2: HISTORY OF OPEN SOURCE!

History of open source:

ü In 1983, Richard Stallman launched the GNU Project to write a complete operating system free from constraints on use of its source code.

Richard Stallman

ü In 1989, the first version of the GNU General Public License was published. A slightly updated version 2 was published in 1991.

ü In 1989, some GNU developers formed the company Cygnus Solutions.

ü The Linux kernel, started by Linus Torvalds, was released as freely modifiable source code in 1991.

Linus Torvald

ü The BSD lawsuit was settled out of court in 1993, FreeBSD and NetBSD (both derived from 386BSD).

ü KDE was founded in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich. At the time, he was troubled by the inconsistencies in UNIX applications.

Matthias Ettrich

ü In 1997, Eric Raymond published The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a reflective analysis of the hacker community and free software principles. The paper received significant attention in early 1998 and was one factor in motivating Netscape Communications Corporation to release their popular Netscape Communicator Internet suite as free software. This code is today better known as Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird.

Eric Raymond

ü In August 1999, Sun Microsystems released the StarOffice office suite as free software under the

GNU Lesser General Public License. The free software version was renamed OpenOffice.org, and coexists with StarOffice.

How To Promote And Develop

 Interest For Other People To 

Use Open Source 

Software???

Guys !!!!  Open Source ??? owh men!!! Unfortunutly, you will not be LOSS if you are going to use OPEN SOURCE!!

WHY? ? You have asking me WHY??  Gosh!!!!

Ok! I’ll be telling you WHY ???

Hahaha....I’ve feel that I’m the good teller (noticed gurlz)! Huhu...

As we all know, open source software’s source code is available to the general public for modification or use from its original design or structure free of charge.

One of the famous open source softwares is Linux operating systems.  But open source is not just about access to the source code.  It has free distribution and it does not restrict other software.

Have you ever wonder why you should use open source software?

Nope????really????auch!!!

Okey2!!! just read on “our nonsense” ... ( if u’re going mention of that !!! )

ü  First, open source programs are RELIABLE.

Open source software’s source code availability to the public makes the program reliable.

Whenever there is a bug detected, developers or users tried to fix those bugs within a couple of hours, report it to the maintainers of the software and release an updated version.

Users may opt to choose to use the fixed version or the official version (including the fix releases).

ü  Second, open source software offers STABILITY to business.

Closed source software usually requires businesses to upgrade to the new versions of the software to support certain features needed.

This means cost for the business.  Using an open source software, businesses or users can have access to the source code.

That will allow the business to support itself to the old version where necessary and gives more options to the businesses or users.

ü  Lastly, since the source code is available for free, businesses, users or organizations are not limited to acquiring SUPPORT from the program authors or developers.

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