The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin by Peter H. Salus covers more than just a history of free and open source -- it explores how free and open software is changing the world. Salus, a noted UNIX, open source, and Internet historian and author of "A Quarter Century of UNIX" and "Casting The Net" books, has interviewed well over a hundred key figures to document the history and background of free and open source software.
In this book, he reaches back into the early days of computing, showing that even in "pre-UNIX" days there was freely available software, and rapidly moves forward to the Free Software movement of today and what it means for the future, drawing analogies and linkages from various aspects of economics and life.
In this book, he reaches back into the early days of computing, showing that even in "pre-UNIX" days there was freely available software, and rapidly moves forward to the Free Software movement of today and what it means for the future, drawing analogies and linkages from various aspects of economics and life.
