I will start this post with a quote by Kushal Das in between the session yesterday.
“The history is important, Learn about it!”
We had a session on IRC channel dgplug last night and the topic was “History of hacking and free software movement”.
The session started with this simple recent tweet by Gnome and a few replies
In this session, Kushal gave an inspiring talk on this topic, He told us about
- TX-O computer at MIT lab,
- How ‘Hacker Ethic’ word came into existence
- The rise of Free Software Movement.
- PDP – I computer
- Richard Stallman
- Founding FSF
- Launching GNU
- Open Source Initiative (OSI) by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond.
Whenever we use Linux, or an open source software, Everything that we see today in Open source world, It all started with Free Software movement, which is about the freedom of users.
He also suggested us some books and resources to read about “History of hacking and free software movement”
- Free as in Freedom
- Hackers: Heroes of Computer Revolution
- A documentary “Revolution OS”
You can check IRC logs of dgplug here.
Kshitij 
Well summarised, but what do *you* think about the movement?
How does it affect you, if at all?
Write more often.
A six line, well thought out post is a post too 🙂
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Thank You Jason Braganza for reading ! Just going there. Noted your valuable opinion. You will see reflection in upcoming posts. 🙂
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