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

Christopher Tozzi

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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.

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在1980年代,有一場具有深遠影響的革命發生了 - 一場恢復軟體自由的革命。在1980年代初,經過數十年將原始碼與程式一同提供的做法,大多數程式設計師停止了自由分享程式碼。一群自稱為「駭客」的革命者挑戰了這種新的常態,他們建立了可以自由分享原始碼的作業系統。在《為了樂趣和利潤》一書中,克里斯多福·托茲(Christopher Tozzi)描述了自由開源軟體(FOSS)革命的起源,從一個由少數程式設計師組成的邊緣努力,到如今廣泛商業使用開源軟體的情況。托茲解釋了FOSS的歷史軌跡,受到異數人物(包括理查德·斯托曼和林納斯·托瓦茲)的影響,並且同時受到意識形態和實用主義、樂趣和利潤的驅使。

托茲探討了駭客文化及其對Unix作業系統的影響,以及對Unix商業化的反應,以及早期Linux開發的歷史。他描述了隨之而來的商業繁榮,當時公司在使用FOSS作業系統的產品上投資了數十億美元;隨後是FOSS運動內部的緊張關係,以及與封閉源碼軟體公司(尤其是微軟)的爭鬥,他們將FOSS視為一種威脅。最後,托茲描述了FOSS在嵌入式計算、移動設備和雲端中的目前主導地位,以及其在文化和知識上的影響。