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The 9 most important events in Open Source history
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| 1983 â Richard Stallman starts the GNU Project
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| Started by Richard Stallman in 1983, the GNU
| Project is a mass collaboration project for
| open and free software that has flourished
| even to this day. Stallman followed up the GNU
| Project with the creation of the Free Software
| Foundation in 1985 to further support the free
| software community.
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| The GNU Project has resulted in a huge amount
| of open source software over time and gave
| birth to the GNU General Public License (GPL),
| arguably the most popular open source license
| model out there. And when the Linux kernel
| arrived, GNU software made it into a complete
| OS.
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http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/15/the-9-most-important-events-in-open-source-history/
Related:
The 2008 Linux and free software timeline
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| As always, 2008 proved to be an interesting year, with great progress in
| useful software that made our systems better. Of course, there were some of
| the usual conflictsâpatent woes, project politics, and arguments over freedom
| âbut overall, the pace of free software progress stayed on its upwardly
| increasing trend. 2008 was a year that saw the end of SCOâor notâthe rise of
| Linux-based "netbooks", multiple excellent distribution releases, more phones
| and embedded devices based on Linux, as well as major releases of software we
| will be using for years (X.org, Python, KDE, ...). We look forward to seeing
| what 2009âand beyond!âwill bring.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/Timeline2008/
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