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(General note: At Penn, the way we structured this was as a conversation between two of the teachers, as a full group.)
Structure: All students are in one room. Asheesh lectures initially. Teachers talk for a while and answer the questions that students ask.
* Free, open source software
* Users in control
* Start with two opposing Skype stories
* Richard M. Stallman at MIT was thinking about these issues in the 1980s. Early history of free software:
** It starts with a printer
** This clarifies his understanding of computing freedom
** He realizes the computing tools he's been using, and that a generation of programmers have been raised on, do not come with essential freedoms.
** Four freedoms, and GNU.
* Copyright, and copyleft
** All rights reserved, by default
** Copyleft is
* 1990s
** 1991: First release of Linux: "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu"
** 1995: "Apache is a public collaborative effort, where the users determine what happens next."
** Early on, users of software frequently thought of themselves as system administrators.
* Lecture:
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