Briefer History of Open Source (Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez) [video]

Main Topics covered (and timestamps)

09:20 1979: the rise and fall of hacker culture

11:44 1969: Bell Labs, Unix, C

14:15 1976: Copyright Act (in USA)

17:09 1979: Scribe markup language

18:05 1980-1989: GNU Project and Four Freedoms

18:45 Richard Stallman printer incident at MIT

22:00 Four Freedoms

25:24 Switzerland, CERN

25:55 1990-1998: The Linux bazaar and the Open Source definition

26:20 1991: World Wide Web

27:00 1993: Mosaic: first web browser

27:45 Linux (Ref: video, • [94] Intro to the Linux Operating Sys... )

31:11 Python and more (R, Vim, Lua, Java, etc)

33:04 1997: The Cathedral and the Bazaar (an essay)

34:43 Netscape, JavaScript

35:45 1998: Open Source initiative

37:55 The Divide: why open source misses the point of free software

38:55 Digital age and the Big Data Explosion

40:10 dot com bubble

41:15 2001: animosity towards open source

42:00 orgs, Foundations: Apache, Linux, Python Software Foundation, Eclipse

44:04 2003: Google File System

44:45 2005: a new era of collaborative software development (Git, GitHub)

47:08 2011: Why software is eating the world

47:41 2012-2018: what do open source maintainers eat?

48:44 Growth of Python

49:30 open source is not sustainable (OpenSSL, Heartbleed, left-pad)

51:43 Nadia Eghbal, Roads and Bridges

52:17 open source system begins to fragment (licenses)

56:15 2019-2023: Post-open source and the Gen AI volcano

01:00:04 a new kind of open source license

01:00:55 2024: What’s next?

01:04:00 Q: Do you think the open source divide was avoidable?

01:05:36 Q: Are you optimistic about the future of open source in terms of funding?

01:07:45 Q: Web 3 and Blockchain

01:09:25 Q: Can you discuss OSPO’s? (Open Source Program Office)

01:12:30 Q: What do you think of the potential for the UFDA (user friendly developers association) model?