From 9ef6fc39b247f3d663f48e9663e0e499680039f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: P. J. McDermott Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 04:07:39 -0500 Subject: Initial commit. --- diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3a4798e --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +.*sw* diff --git a/basic-outline.txt b/basic-outline.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..66317fc --- /dev/null +++ b/basic-outline.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +history of software freedom + +in the beginning, all users were free + computers [examples?] came with software + software source code was shared freely + companies saw no reason to lock it away or forbid sharing and modification + something about hackers and the MIT model railroad club? +proprietarization + mostly through the 1970s + IBM in 1969[?] + copyright extended to software + "Open Letter to Hobbyists" +GNU +FSF +EULAs + legally-binding contracts + began as a way to limit warranties and disclaim liability + in the mid 1980s, became popular in forbidding sharing and modification +Linux +open source, Netscape +something on DRM maybe? +modern EULAs + limit free speech + allow developer to change software remotely without notice diff --git a/researched-outline.txt b/researched-outline.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..667f671 --- /dev/null +++ b/researched-outline.txt @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +in the beginning, there was freedom - ~02:00 + DEC PDP-1 + became the favorite machine of the budding hacker culture + after its donation to MIT in 1962 + [WP-PDP-1] + DECUS + Digital Equipment Computer Users Society + users had to write software for PDP-1 + founded in 1961 + facilitated free exchange of info and sw between customers and DEC + [CHM-DECUS] + Spacewar! + space shooter with realistic physics that showed power of PDP-1 + written by Steve Russel in 1961-1962 + MIT hackers freely shared game + [Quinn, 316] + [CHM-Spacewar!] + Unix + originally written in 1969 to run on PDP-7 + by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, M. D. McIlroy, and J. F. Ossanna + to be "a system around which a fellowship could form" + AT&T was required to license non-telephone tech. to anyone who asked + under a 1958 consent decree in settlement of an antitrust case + AT&T licensed Unix with source code to univs, corps, U.S. gov't + Lion's Commentary, 1976, documented Unix source code + Unix hackers of the early 1970s + enjoyed largely unrestricted access to Unix sys at univs and corps + throughout the 1970s, univs worldwide contributed greatly to Unix dev + [DMR-Hist] + [ESR-TAOUP-2.1] + [WP-Unix] +proprietarization + IBM unbundling + 1969 + IBM stopped providing software in source form with hardware + instead began selling binary copies of software at a high cost + pioneered the "software industry" + [WP-IBM] + "Open Letter to Hobbyists" + written by Bill Gates, General Partner, Micro-Soft + published between January and May, 1976 + in Homebrew Computer Club Newsletter, Computer Notes, et al + accused hobbyists of stealing + claimed that sharing software is unfair and prevents writing of good sw + [WP-Open-Letter] + [DB-Gates] + copyright + Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU) + established in 1974 to study and make recommends on legislation + Copyright Act of 1976 + added 17 U.S.C. §117 + Computer Software Copyright Act of 1980 + added defn of "computer program" to 17 U.S.C. §101 + explicitly made software copyrightable + rewrote 17 U.S.C. §117 + "it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer + program to make or to authorize the making of another copy or + adaptation of that computer program provided: + (1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an + essential step in the utilization of the computer program in + conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other + manner, or + (2) that such new copy or adaptation is for archival + purposes only and that all archival copies are destroyed in + the event that continued possession of the computer program + should cease to be rightful." +GNU + + +WP-PDP-1 + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-1 +CHM-DECUS + http://pdp-1.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/index.php?f=theme&s=4&ss=7 +Quinn + Quinn, Michael J. _Ethics for the Information Age_. Fourth Edition. + Addison-Wesley, 2011. 316. +CHM-Spacewar! + http://pdp-1.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/index.php?f=theme&s=4&ss=3 +DMR-Hist + http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html +ESR-TAOUP-2.1 + http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch02s01.html +WP-Unix + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix +WP-IBM + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM + #1969:_Antitrust.2C_the_Unbundling_of_software_and_services +WP-Open-Letter + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists +DB-Gates + http://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/V2_01/ + homebrew_V2_01_p2.jpg -- cgit v0.9.1