Just finished reading, "Rebel Code. Linux and the Open Source Revolution",
by Glyn Moody. Pub. 2001, The Penguin Press, ISBN 0-713-99520-3
It's an engrossing history from pre-Linux days, until now. You've
heard the names - Richard Stallman, Jamie Zawinski, Alan Cox, and
so on. Well they're all in there.
Stuff about:
* How Linus started (everyone else gets first and surname, but not "Linus").
* Why he succeeded where others haven't. (Or at least, some theories about
that).
* What was happening up until then - Minix, Andrew Tanenbaum, FSF.
* How Linus had a fight with Tanenbaum.
* How Stallman has fights with everyone :-) How he wanted GNU/Linux to
be called "LiGNUx" (And how Linus almost called it "Freax")
* How Linux almost got forked.
* How emacs *did* get forked. And gcc too. And how Stallman "healed"
the latter.
* Larry Wall and perl. Python too.
* Netscape, Mosaic, Mozilla.
* How RedHat IPO'ed.
* How Eric Raymond became a millionaire.
* And Microsoft get their mention too.
and so on.
And a good wind up with speculation about where it will all go from here.
Cool book.
t
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