For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution
暫譯: 為了樂趣與利潤：自由與開源軟體革命的歷史

Tozzi, Christopher, Zittrain, Jonathan L.

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

商品描述

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.

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.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

自由與開源軟體運動，從駭客文化的起源，經過GNU和Linux的發展，到今天的商業應用。

在1980年代，發生了一場具有深遠影響的革命——一場恢復軟體自由的革命。在1980年代初期，經過數十年將原始碼與程式共享後，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」的革命者挑戰了這一新常態，建立了可以自由分享原始碼的作業系統。在《For Fun and Profit》中，Christopher Tozzi描述了自由與開源軟體（FOSS）革命的歷程，從一小群程式設計師的邊緣努力到今天開源軟體的廣泛商業應用。Tozzi解釋了FOSS的歷史軌跡，這一軌跡受到包括Richard Stallman和Linus Torvalds在內的古怪人物的影響，並由意識形態和務實主義、樂趣和利潤驅動。

Tozzi探討了駭客文化及其對Unix作業系統的影響，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FOSS運動內部的緊張關係；以及與將FOSS視為威脅的封閉源碼軟體公司（特別是Microsoft）之間的鬥爭。最後，Tozzi描述了FOSS在嵌入式計算、行動裝置和雲端中的當前主導地位，以及其文化和智識影響。

作者簡介

Christopher Tozzi is Assistant Professor of History at Howard University and a freelance writer. He is the author of Nationalizing France's Army: Foreign, Black, and Jewish Troops in the French Military, 1715-1831.

Jonathan L. Zittrain is George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is also Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law School Library, and Cofounder and Director of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

克里斯多福·托茲（Christopher Tozzi）是霍華大學（Howard University）歷史學助理教授及自由作家。他是《國家化法國軍隊：外國、黑人和猶太人在法國軍隊中的角色，1715-1831》（Nationalizing France's Army: Foreign, Black, and Jewish Troops in the French Military, 1715-1831）的作者。

喬納森·L·齊特林（Jonathan L. Zittrain）是哈佛法學院（Harvard Law School）和哈佛甘迺迪政府學院（Harvard Kennedy School of Government）的喬治·比米斯國際法教授（George Bemis Professor of International Law）。他同時也是哈佛工程與應用科學學院（Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences）的計算機科學教授，哈佛法學院圖書館的館長，以及哈佛伯克曼·克萊因網路與社會中心（Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society）的共同創辦人和主任。

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