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For Fun and Profit - (History of Computing) by Christopher Tozzi (Paperback)

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  • 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.
  • About the Author: Christopher Tozzi is Assistant Professor of History at Howard University and a freelance writer.
  • 336 Pages
  • Computers + Internet, History
  • Series Name: History of Computing

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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 this new norm by building operating systems with source code that could be freely shared. In For Fun and Profit, Christopher Tozzi offers an account of the free and open source software (FOSS) revolution, from its origins as an obscure, marginal effort by a small group of programmers to the widespread commercial use of open source software today. Tozzi explains FOSS's historical trajectory, shaped by eccentric personalities--including Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds--and driven both by ideology and pragmatism, by fun and profit.

Tozzi examines hacker culture and its influence on the Unix operating system, the reaction to Unix's commercialization, and the history of early Linux development. He describes the commercial boom that followed, when companies invested billions of dollars in products using FOSS operating systems; the subsequent tensions within the FOSS movement; and the battles with closed source software companies (especially Microsoft) that saw FOSS as a threat. Finally, Tozzi describes FOSS's current dominance in embedded computing, mobile devices, and the cloud, as well as its cultural and intellectual influence.



About the Author



Christopher Tozzi is Assistant Professor of History at Howard University and a freelance writer. He is the author of Nationalizing France's Army: Foreign, Black, and Jewish Troops in the French Military, 1715-1831.

Jonathan L. Zittrain is George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is also Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law School Library, and Cofounder and Director of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.38 Inches (W) x .75 Inches (D)
Weight: .86 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 336
Series Title: History of Computing
Genre: Computers + Internet
Sub-Genre: History
Publisher: MIT Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Christopher Tozzi
Language: English
Street Date: April 9, 2024
TCIN: 91368041
UPC: 9780262551786
Item Number (DPCI): 247-17-7162
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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