For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution

by Christopher Tozzi

The free and open source software movement, from its origins in hacker culture, through the development of GNU and Linux, to its commercial use today.

In the 1980s, there was a revolution with far-reaching consequences--a revolution to restore software freedom. In the early 1980s, after decades of making source code available with programs, most programmers ceased sharing code freely. A band of revolutionaries, self-described "hackers," challenged...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262036479
• ISBN13: 9780262036474
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher