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. 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. 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. A band of revolutionaries, self-described "hackers," challenged this new norm by building operating systems with source code that could be freely shared. In the early 1980s, after decades of making source code available with programs, most programmers ceased sharing code freely. In the 1980s, there was a revolution with far-reaching consequences-a revolution to restore software freedom. 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.
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