WHO Is AN OPEN SOURCE Software Developer?

摘要

The genesis of the open source model for software development and distribution goes back to the earliest days of software in university environments when software was developed to solve problems and be freely shared. The term "free software" was popularized by the seminal Free Software Foundation- the parent organization for the GNU (GNU's Not Unix) project- founded in 1984 by MIT researcher Richard Stallman. Stallman's vision was to develop a free operating system, complete with standard software tools such as compilers, interpreters, text editors, mailers, and so forth, in order to re-create a community of cooperating hackers he felt had been lost as Unix was commercialized.