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Mat BoothSoftware EngineerRed Hat Eclipse Team
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HISTORY
Richard Stallman
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Lawrence Lessig
Linus Torvalds
Open Source"I consider that the golden rule requires that if Ilike a program, I must share it with other peoplewho like it. Software sellers want to divide theusers and conquer them, make each user agreenot to share with others. I refuse to breaksolidarity with other users in this way."The GNU ManifestoRichard Stallman, Founder of the Free Software Foundationhttp://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
Open Standards"The decision to make the web an open systemwas necessary for it to be universal. You can'tpropose that something be a universal spaceand at the same time keep control of it."Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Creator of the World Wide Webhttp://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html
Open Content"Remember the refrain: We always build on thepast; the past always tries to stop us. Freedomis about stopping the past, but we have lost thatideal."Lawrence Lessig, Founding Member of Creative Commons
Linux"Hello everybody out there using minix - I'mdoing a (free) operating system (just a hobby,won't be big and professional like gnu) for386(486) AT clones...."Linus TorvaldsIn a post to comp.os.minix, 25 August 1991
Linux is the Hype du Jour- Gartner Group, 1999
My immediate impression was thata random collection of folks on theInternet could not build quality software and I was completely wrong- Daniel Frye, Vice President Open Systems, IBM, 2012