How We Got Here: A Brief History of Open Source

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A Brief History of Open SourceChris Tankersley@dragonmantankphp[world] 2016

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1.79 MHz 8-bit Processor128K RAM

640x192 max resolution64 color palette

RS-232 Serial PortCartridge Bay

2 Joystick Ports

Disk Extended Color Basic 2.1

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520 Mhz Apple S1512MB RAM

390x312 resolution (~303 ppi density)16 million colors

WatchOS

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1.79 MHz 8-bit Processor128K RAM

640x192 max resolution64 color palette

RS-232 Serial PortCartridge Bay

2 Joystick Ports

Disk Extended Color Basic 2.1

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“All information should be free”

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The Hacker Ethics• Access to computers – and anything which might teach you

something about the way the world works – should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!

• All information should be free• Mistrust Authority – promote decentralization• Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not criteria such as

degrees, age, race, sex, or position• You can create art and beauty on a computer• Computers can change your life for the better

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“All information should be free”

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“I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. 

Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.

I cannot in good conscience sign a nondisclosure agreement or a software license agreement. For years I worked within the Artificial Intelligence Lab to resist such tendencies and other inhospitalities, but eventually they had gone too far:

I could not remain in an institution where such things are done for me against my will.”

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1998

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The Hacker Ethics• Access to computers – and anything which might teach you

something about the way the world works – should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!

• All information should be free• Mistrust Authority – promote decentralization• Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not criteria such as

degrees, age, race, sex, or position• You can create art and beauty on a computer• Computers can change your life for the better

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Thank You!• Co-Host of “Jerks Talk Games”

• http://jerkstalkgames.com

• Author of “Docker for Developers”• https://leanpub.com/dockerfordevs

• http://ctankersley.com• chris@ctankersley.com• @dragonmantank• @jerkstalkgames

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Credits• https://www.flickr.com/photos/david_s_carter/2652345453/in/album

-72157607224927467/• https://ia600702.us.archive.org/23/items/1983-08-compute-magazin

e/Compute_Issue_039_1983_Aug.pdf• http://www.oldcarmanualproject.com/brochures/Chev/1956/brochur

e/images/1956%20Chevrolet%20(01)_jpg.jpg• By Swtpc6800 en:User:Swtpc6800 Michael Holley - Transfered from

en.wikipedia, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3185062

• https://www.flickr.com/photos/hades2k/7001927337