Open Source Software Went Nuclear This Year

Posted by bob on Dec 27, 2015 11:20 AM EDT
Wired; By Cade Metz
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Open source software—software freely shared with the world at large—is an old idea. A guy named Richard Stallman started preaching the gospel in the early ’80s, though he called it free software. Linus Torvalds started work on Linux, the enormously successful open source operating system, in 1991, and today, it drives our daily lives—literally... if there’s one thing we learned in 2015, it’s that we shouldn’t underestimate the power of open source.

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