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Linux Essentials - Second Edition
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Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond founded the Open Source Initiative (OSI) in 1998 as an umbrella organization for open source software in general. Its philosophy, described in more detail shortly, is similar to that of the FSF but differs in some important details. As a general rule, more software qualifies as open source than qualifies as free (in the way the FSF means), but precisely what qualifies depends on the open source definition and, in a strict sense, on what the OSI has approved in terms of its licenses.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the free software movement gathered momentum in certain circles, including academia and among hobbyists. Businesses, however, were slow to adopt free software. Many who did adopt it did so reluctantly or even unwittingly—system administrators, pressed to perform their duties with minuscule budgets, would quietly install Linux, Apache, Samba, and other free software...
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