author : Chris DiBona

Contents

• Eric S. Raymond.

A Brief History of Hackerdom. 1998

From the early days of the 1960s, up to the the appearance of Linux in the early 1990s

• Eric S. Raymond.

The Revenge of the Hackers. 1998

The success of the Open Source movement in the 1990s, and where it might go from here

• Marshall Kirk McKusick.

Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: from AT&T-owned to freely redistributable

• Scott Bradner.

The Internet engineering task force

• Richard Stallman.

The GNU operating system and the Free Software movement. 1998

• Michael Tiemann.

Future of Cynus Solutions: an entrepreneur's account

• Paul Vixie.

Software Engineering

• Linus Torvalds.

The Linux edge

• Robert Young.

Giving it away: how Red Hat Software stumbled across a new economic model and helped improve an industry

• Larry Wall.

Diligence, patience, and humility

• Brian Behlendorf.

Open Source as a business strategy

• Bruce Perens.

The Open Source definition. 1998

• Tim O'Reilly.

Hardware, software, and infoware

• Jim Hamerley, Tom Paquin, Susan Walton.

Freeing the source: the story of Mozilla. 1998