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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary (Linus Torvalds)
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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary is a 2001 memoir and technology history by Linus Torvalds, written with David Diamond. It traces Torvalds from a computer oriented childhood in Finland through his university years, the creation of the Linux kernel, and Linux becoming a major force in the emerging open source world. The book is not a technical manual or a complete institutional history of free software. Its central purpose is to explain, in Torvalds's characteristically informal and blunt voice, how a personal programming project acquired global importance without beginning as a planned commercial venture or political campaign. Alongside biographical episodes, it presents his views on programming, operating system design, collaboration, ambition, and technology. The result is most useful as a period document from the early Internet era: it captures how Linux formed around accessible networked collaboration and a maintainer willing to judge contributions by their practical effect. It also preserves the tensions between pragmatic open source development and more ideological accounts of software freedom.
- Amazon USA Store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0066620732?tag=9natree-20
- Amazon Worldwide Store: https://global.buys.trade/Just-for-Fun%3A-The-Story-of-an-Accidental-Revolutionary-Linus-Torvalds.html
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- Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/0066620732/
#Linuxkernelorigins #Distributedopensourcedevelopment #Pragmaticopensource #Monolithickerneldebate #Internetsoftwarecollaboration #JustforFun
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary is a 2001 memoir and technology history by Linus Torvalds, written with David Diamond. It traces Torvalds from a computer oriented childhood in Finland through his university years, the creation of the Linux kernel, and Linux becoming a major force in the emerging open source world. The book is not a technical manual or a complete institutional history of free software. Its central purpose is to explain, in Torvalds's characteristically informal and blunt voice, how a personal programming project acquired global importance without beginning as a planned commercial venture or political campaign. Alongside biographical episodes, it presents his views on programming, operating system design, collaboration, ambition, and technology. The result is most useful as a period document from the early Internet era: it captures how Linux formed around accessible networked collaboration and a maintainer willing to judge contributions by their practical effect. It also preserves the tensions between pragmatic open source development and more ideological accounts of software freedom.
