Rebel code
by Glyn Moody · first published 2001
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The open source movement troubles big industry giants like Microsoft because good programming in GNU / Linux software code is made even better by sharing and distributing its source freely for improvement, mostly without financial profit to the industry and without waiting on "upgraded versions" from the originator.
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For a more generic FOSS perspective, https://www.amazon.com/Rebel-Code-Linux-Source-Revolution/dp... is a very nice read. Cristi Vlăsceanu, if you're around, many thanks for the books. The OS one I gave to a Poli student that was very passionate about OSes.
on “The Early Days of Linux” ↗Even Linux only started using VCS in 1998. It was only tarballs maintained by Linus and e-mailed patches before then. Rebel Code (http://books.google.com/books/about/Rebel_Code.html?id=kIU1s...) does a pretty good job summing up how Linux migrated from tarball source releases to BitKeeper (and eventually, of course, git). It appears…
on “Postfix has no public version control” ↗For a good book on the subject try "Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution" http://www.amazon.com/Rebel-Code-Linux-Source-Revolution-ebo...
on “The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate (1992)” ↗I add some: It's behind you, the making of a computer game (https://bizzley.42web.io/?i=1) Rebel Code (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/289947.Rebel_Code) Just for Fun (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160171.Just_for_Fun?from...) The Computer - My Life (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/594610.The_Computer_My_L...)…
on “The Joy of Computer History Books” ↗