HPR4705: Free Software Is Wasted On You Teens

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Freedom 0–3 (verbatim reference)

• The four freedoms, GNU/FSF: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
• Richard Stallman: https://www.stallman.org/

Named FOSS figures (freedom 3 list)

• Linus Torvalds (Linux): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
• Dries Buytaert (Drupal): https://dri.es
• Guido van Rossum (Python): https://gvanrossum.github.io
• Ian Murdock (Debian): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock
• Brian Behlendorf (Apache): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Behlendorf
• Miguel de Icaza (GNOME/Mono): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza

Infrastructure block (post beer 1)

• curl / Daniel Stenberg: https://curl.se and https://daniel.haxx.se
• xkcd 2347 (dependency comic): https://xkcd.com/2347/
• xz backdoor, CVE-2024-3094: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
• Andres Freund's original disclosure: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

Licensing block (beer 2–3)

• GPL: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
• MIT License: https://opensource.org/license/mit
• FreeBSD: https://www.freebsd.org
• macOS/Darwin BSD lineage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
• PlayStation using FreeBSD (Orbis OS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbis_OS

Industry acquisitions (beer 4)

• Microsoft acquires GitHub, 2018, $7.5B: https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-github-for-7-5-billion/

FOSDEM field report (beer 4–5)

• FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org
• Ladybird browser / Andreas Kling: https://ladybird.org
• Godot Engine: https://godotengine.org
• Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io
• Redis → Valkey fork: https://valkey.io
• Terraform → OpenTofu fork: https://opentofu.org

Homework block (beer 5)

• Ollama: https://ollama.com
• Codeberg: https://codeberg.org
• LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org
• Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox

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