One of the world’s leading advocates of the open source software movement, Brian Bahlendorf gave a talk at the Digital Freedom Expo at the University of the Western Cape on Thursday, entitled “Ten things you may not know about open source”.
- Open Source predates proprietary software
- Apache kept the Web flat and free
- Open SSL kept cryptography available to everyone
- Open Source helped free the human genome
- Microsoft loves open source
- Altruism is not the only reason why people contribute to open source software
- Online communities can actually get things done
- The most important freedom: the right to fork
- Open source can still change the world
- Open source needs your help (whoever you are)
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