History of open source software

Posted by Victor Sorokin on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Victor Sorokin
Published on 2010-12-23T11:24:24Z Indexed on 2011/01/04 1:59 UTC
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I've been always interested, out of the pure self-amusement, in the history of open software used today:

who were the people which started it and what were the reasons to start
what were design decisions at the start
how software evolved over the time

Specifically, I'm interested in following software:

GCC
X
Linux kernel
Java

Of course, there is plenty of information in Internet to google for, but I thought it would be nice to have list of interesting resources at this site.

I hope some of visitors of this site have similar interest and can share a link or two they found particularly amusing/interesting.

To make this entry more question-like, here's straight question: what are the most interesting/amusing links about history of open source software?

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