Computer Science · History of Computing
A topic within History of Computing, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
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Richard Stallman
Announces the GNU project and argues software should be free to run, study, share and modify, laying out the ethical case for free software that the later open-source movement would recast in more pragmatic terms.
Eric S. Raymond
Open, parallel development can outperform closed planning because bug-finding parallelises even when design does not.
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