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Acknowledgments

Ch. 1. Introduction

Ch. 2. A Brief History of Hackerdom

Ch. 3. Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable

Ch. 4. The Internet Engineering Task Force

Ch. 5. The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement

The First Software-Sharing Community

The Collapse of the Community

A Stark Moral Choice

Free as in Freedom

GNU Software and the GNU System

Commencing the Project

The First Steps

Is a Program Free for Every User?

Copyleft and the GNU GPL

The Free Software Foundation

Free Software Support

Technical Goals

Donated Computers

The GNU Task List

The GNU Library GPL

Scratching an Itch?

Unexpected Developments

Linux and GNU/Linux

Challenges in Our Future

Ch. 6. Future of Cygnus Solutions: An Entrepreneur's Account

Ch. 7. Software Engineering

Ch. 8. The Linux Edge

Ch. 9. Giving It Away: How Red Hat Software Stumbled Across a New Economic Model and Helped Improve an Industry

Ch. 10. Diligence, Patience, and Humility

Ch. 11. Open Source as a Business Strategy

Ch. 12. The Open Source Definition

Ch. 13. Hardware, Software, and Infoware

Ch. 14. Freeing the Source: The Story of Mozilla

Ch. 15. The Revenge of the Hackers

Appx. A. The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate

Appx. B. The Open Source Definition, Version 1.0

Appx. C. Contributors

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Chapter 5. The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement

Richard Stallman

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