A Brief History of Free and Open Source Software

@mindtouch A Brief History of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) 1960–70 The Monarchies 1974 The Unix Act Closed Source Companies rule the early software world. AT&T releases Unix free of charge and license restrictions Freedom Despot Freedom - 1976 1976 | The Resistance Despot In an Open Letter to Hobbyists Bill Gates pens an anti- software sharing proclamation 1980 1985 GNU Manifesto 1980 | The Xerox Affair Stallman creates Copyleft: to ensure material can be freely used, copied, examined, adapted and built upon. Carnegie Mellon professor refuses to give software source code to Richard Stallman for 1985 | Freedom Software Foundation (FSF) Xerox printer. Stallman revolts. Freedom Despot 1984 Stallman creates FSF to support the free software June 1991 | The Linux Act movement. Free Software is a matter of liberty not price. Linus Torvalds releases Linux Kernel as freely modifiable code. 1990 June 1991 | Liberty or Death Freedom The FSF creates a new GPLV2 license that Despot 1992 prevents people from restricting distribution of GPL license software. Nov 1993 | VA Linux Founded April 1995 | The Apache Plan Larry Augustin and James Vera found VA Research and sell Linux pre-installed on The Apache Group releases first Apache Server sparking growth in the early World Wide Web. computer systems. 1996 June 1997 | The Shot Heard "Round the World Eric Raymond releases Cathedral and the Bazaar on why the Linux Software model works. 1998 | "Open Source" is Coined Christine Peterson and others create open source term and trade-mark it for free software products. Freedom Despot 1998 1998 | The Halloween Papers Eric Raymond releases Microsoft internal document Open Source is a direct threat to our business. The Open Source Revolution 2000 The war over business models breaks out between FOSS and Proprietary Software Vendors Freedom Despot Who is the Benedict Arnold of Open Source The recent years... Open Core model emerges as a dual license model offering both a GPL license and a commercial license. Hundreds of new companies emerge. Publie Offerings O spring ource KnowledgeTree JASPESOFT COntıruent contiruent alend mindtouch A acquia redifat VA LINUX 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 GWEIS opentaho Alfresco Zimbra HIPPO OOTNETNUKe By @MarkFidelman & Aaron Fulkerson for Mind Touch, CloudAve.com, SeekOmega.com