"A celebration of the 50th anniversary of Lisp is taking place in October at OOPSLA 2008. John McCarthy will give a talk about the early history of Lisp..."
Read more »Lisp’s 50th Birthday Celebration
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[RMS & TBL] How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web
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"...On 26 june a prophet came to CERN. Complete with long hair and a bushy unkempt, Richard Stallman looked every bit the part. His message was software should be free. [...] The year that Stallman came to CERN, Tim had published a note in a CERN computing newsletter drawing the laboratarie's attention to GNU. [...] «When we speak of free software ... we are refrerring to freedom, not price».
Read more »Down With The Fences! - The Struggle For The Global Commons - May 1st - May 11th
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"...As the world faces a wave of new enclosures brought about by globalisation we’ll hopefully examine some of the history of the ‘commons’, their enclosure and the spirited resistance to private ownership over the centuries..."
Read more »History of Linux
http://netfiles.uiuc.edu –
It was 1991, and the ruthless agonies of the cold war were gradually coming to an end. There was an air of peace and tranquility that prevailed in the horizon. In the field of computing, a great future seemed to be in the offing, as powerful hardware pushed the limits of the computers beyond what anyone expected.
Read more »Is Red Hat still relevant? You bet.
http://www.montanalinux.org –
I recently attended a Linux Installfest and the primary distribution recommended by those heading up the event was Ubuntu. That's all well and good but during their Linux dog-and-pony-show a statement was made regarding Red Hat that struck me.
Read more »ODF vs. OOXML: War of the Words (an eBook in Process)
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For some time I've been considering writing a book about what has become a standards war of truly epic proportions. I refer, of course, to the ongoing, ever expanding, still escalating conflict between ODF and OOXML, a battle that is playing out across five continents and in both the halls of government and the marketplace alike.
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Why Penguin is Linux logo?
http://www.linuxscrew.com –
Penguin as logo/mascot for Linux was discussed first in early 1996 by several people in the linux-kernel mailing list. The idea of such mascot came from Alan Cox first. Among many other suggestions made by different people there were parodies of other operating system logos, sharks or even eagles.
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Did you ever wonder...?
http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org –
If software companies had had more faith in copyright in the early days, would GNU or Linux ever have happened?
Here's the basis for the speculation:
Weekly tip: how to get the best out of the history command in GNU/Linux
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com –
Anybody who has used the command line extensively to navigate, understand and configure GNU/Linux will know that in the course of a few months’ work it is possible to build up an extensive history of used commands. This necessitates some pro-active management to get the best out of it. Here are some tips to make the most of the history command.
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Free Software as Part of the Anarchist Toolkit
http://www.anarkismo.net –
An exploration of the connections between free software, anarchism, and participatory culture. The authors suggests that free software is both a form of sharing and a coopting of the means of production. He sees it as an example of voluntary sharing and contrary to usual capitalist principles, and hopes it will lead to greater cooperation in other spheres.
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Roads to the GPL
http://tuxdeluxe.org –
""They give back all extensions they made so as to help EMACS improve. I called this arrangement 'the EMACS commune'""
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