I have always been a history enthusiast. Unfortunately, I don’t know much about history in the context of computers. I am therefore interested in learning more about significant events and people like Richard stallman and all the related events such as Windows refund day. I am interested to read and explore the timeline, I suppose a book would be ideal but any good resource such as a youtube series would be great too.

Update: I am happy to recieve such wide variety of resources to explore, I hope this post might help someone who is interested in FOSS history in the future too.

  • Adanisi@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    One thing I found annoying in that was Torvalds saying something along the lines of “think of Stallman as the philosopher and me as the engineer”. Yes, Stallman can be thought of as a “philosopher” but he is also an “engineer”, he wrote a hell of a lot of code for GNU, which wouldn’t exist without him anyways. It just seems like downplaying how important he was for the rise of this system.

    Overall I think it’s good, though.

    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      I think that has more to do with Stallman having a reputation for being a dick than anything else—people don’t like to give a lot of credit to people they don’t like very much.

      I’ve never met Stallman though, so I can’t say what he’s like personally—I’m just going off what I read from bigger nerds than me.

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      1 year ago

      open source ppl likes shitting on free software ppl so yeah