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this chapter says that this is just the first of its kind there are still many things left to be answerd in this technology, the essay in this book are just the beggining there many quetions to be answered about the system of open source.

“I expect the open-source movement to have essentially won its point about software within three to five years (that is, by 2003–2005). Once that is accomplished, and the results have been manifest for a while, they will become part of the background culture of non-programmers. At that point it will become more appropriate to try to leverage open-source insights in wider domains.In the meantime, even if we hackers are not making an ideological noise about it, we will still be changing the world.”

what i think from what they are trying to say that even if the open source is just beginig it will surely contribute to the development of the technology, the open source is basically going to be part of a culture of non programmers. it is for peole who are just basically interested for things that can be accessed in theses kinds of sytems, their target is open source to be part of a culture that will be a contribution for the deelopment of technology, so from what i read, open source is just not an oridary sytem for these peole they have plan on what they want open source to be, they have a goal, a dream for the development of the system, they even have a time period on how open source will be in the future.

“In this essay, I’ll recapitulate from my personal point of view the events that immediately led up to the January 1998 “shot heard ’round the world” of the open-source revolution. I’ll reflect on the remarkable distance we’ve come since. Then I will tentatively offer some projections into the future.” what i have read from this chapter is that it talks about the history of open source, how it was first started.”

The hacker tradition I had been observing for two decades seemed suddenly alive in a vibrant new way. In a sense, I had already been made part of this community, for several of my personal free-software projects had been added to the mix. But I wanted to get in deeper…because every delight I saw also deepened my puzzlement. It was too good!” this chapter gives the history of the open surce. people has given hackers already an impression and i think it is not good how people think of hackers oday. i think hackers are aleady stereotypes when you mention them, people has an image of what a hacker is and it is not good, they immediately think of some one bad when you mention them, you would think of someone who takes advantage of their knowledge, people who has the capability beyon others and in this chaper they talks about how this peole came to be fromhow they all started.

this chapter talks about the economics int he open source, it talks about how open source and economics are being connected. like ineconomics there are people wiith transactions invovled, for me it is like the open source being the market and anyone can have access to it, same in an economy, people go to a market to purchase their wants and needs, like in and open source sytem everything is available, some are even for free, anyone can have access to it, but doing so we should be responsible for what ever we are doing in an open source system and also in this chapter they talk about why people close source, practically i think because of marketing purposes, to get access of a close sourse sytem, i think there should be a fee first to be paid. this already gettin to the business side of things, this is already taking it seriously iam not saying that the open source sytem is not serious but with the close source system, this is where peole make their money before getting acces they should be paid, well no matter what you do there are still people, someone, somebody in this world willing to purchse something you have, ome one who shares the same interest as you.

Chapter 3 alks about the differnt characteristics of hackers, how these people work. there are different kinds of hackers, there are some who do there work for academic purposes, there are soome who takes advantage of others work, because of their capabilities, their knowledge, they are able to manipulate works with their intelligence. in this chapter they talk about how hackers get invovled witht he open source, they are able to take advantage of the systems in their own ways, with the technologytoday we should be careful with what we have, we shold be responsible for our acts we should not take advantage of people’s works, it has been shared to us but we should usse it in a positive way.people are always updated in the technology, hackers have their own ways to interfere, manipulate the system.

“The book in your hands is about the behavior and culture of computer hackers. It collects a series of essays originally meant for programmers and technical managers. The obvious (and entirely fair) question for you, the potential reader, to ask is: “Why should I care?”

The most obvious answer to this question is that computer software is an increasingly critical factor in the world economy and in the strategic calculations of businesses. That you have opened this book at all means you are almost certainly familiar with many of today’s truisms about the information economy, the digital age, and the wired world; I will not rehearse them here. I will simply point out that any significant advance in our understanding of how to build better-quality, more reliable software has tremendous implications that are growing more tremendous by the day.”

yeas, why should i care, i really do no have any idea on what will i learn from reading this book. i know it is just a requirement for us to read it. but now that i have read the introduction of the book , the first question i encounter is :why should i care?”. may be i should care becasue this book i think will talk about things on what we are learning today. i am involved on what the book is going to talk about. i want to learn more about this technology. it has opened up a part about open source systems, i have an idea on what it is about. this was taught to us before so i have an idea. i think i will be intersted as we go on with the other chapters pf the book. i think i should care because  this what is happening today, the techno;ogy exixt and is being more powerful as it develop so i should be updated on the technology.

See?  Most of the people who have contributed to the success of this World Class OS, Linux, are mostly HACKERS scattered around the planet…

Certainly not I. By the time Linux swam onto my radar screen in early 1993, I had already been involved in Unix and open-source development for ten years. I was one of the first GNU contributors in the mid-1980s. I had released a good deal of open-source software onto the net, developing or co-developing several programs (nethack, Emacs’s VC and GUD modes, xlife, and others) that are still in wide use today. I thought I knew how it was done.

My professors from benile actually taught us the open-source thingy and how stupid of me to think that this thing didnt exist in the past

AND HERE COMES THE BIG QUESTION… WHY WSS THIS NAMED AS CATHEDRAL AND THE BAZAAR? Well because Linus Torvalds’s style of development—release early and often, delegate everything you can, be open to the point of promiscuity—came as a surprise. No quiet, reverent cathedral-building here—rather, the Linux community seemed to resemble a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches (aptly symbolized by the Linux archive sites, who’d take submissions from anyone) out of which a coherent and stable system could seemingly emerge only by a succession of miracles.

For me it was like wore of a bazaar where everything you needed was there… Different kinds of stuff, agendas, ideas made available by different people and it is just up to you on how to consume it.. EVERYONE COULD CONTRIBUTE>> MORE LIKE AN OPEN SOURCE THINGY in building up an app or software rather than building everything from scratch and with no help or maybe help from a few people rather than consuming the ideas shared to you by others of millions of people… Open source is such a great thing because you learn and help others in the process. You help enrich the apps or codes of others and at the same time helping people seek for the codes they needed to run their own programs..

By mid-1996 I thought I was beginning to understand. Chance handed me a perfect way to test my theory, in the form of an open-source project that I could consciously try to run in the bazaar style. So I did—and it was a significant success.

See? So he is like pointing out the things I have mentioned earlier.. YEY! We are on the same page!

According to this chapter… There were no REAL PROGRAMMERS in the beginning.. At first I was so puzzled.. Why? How? So? And why was no one considered as real programmers then? Because programmers during 1845 onwards treated programming FOR FUN…But it wasn’t long enough that ‘REAL PROGRAMMERS’ was coined after 1980… The Real Programmers typically came out of engineering or physics backgrounds.. From what I have read.. They looked like GEEKS (most of them) They were often amateur-radio hobbyists. They wore white socks and polyester shirts and ties and thick glasses and coded in machine language and assembler and FORTRAN and half a dozen ancient languages now forgotten. SEE? LOL Their works gave rise to NETWORKS, COMPUTERS, INTERACTIVE COMPUTING, UNIVERSITIES…

Well WHO ADOPTED THE TERM hackers FIRST? MIT’s computer culture seems to have been the first to adopt the term `hacker’. The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1. A hacker in the name of Dennis Ritchie invented a new language called `C’ for use under Thompson’s embryonic Unix. Like Unix, C was designed to be pleasant, unconstraining, and flexible.. I have never used C because we are already using C#.. Maybe that could be it roots…

Well almost ALL THE FIRSTSSSS happened in ARPAnet (sort of like the Internet we have today) where the first intentional artifacts of the hacker culture—the first slang lists, the first satires, the first self-conscious discussions of the hacker ethic propagated.. So from those FIRSTSSS came this JARGON FILES which lead to this slang dictionary that eventually became one of the culture’s defining documents. It was eventually published as “The Hacker’s Dictionary” in 1983; that first version is out of print, but a revised and expanded version is New Hacker’s Dictionary…

THIS In 1982, a group of Unix hackers from Stanford and Berkeley founded Sun Microsystems on the belief that Unix running on relatively inexpensive 68000-based hardware would prove a winning combination for a wide variety of applications. They were right, and their vision set the pattern for an entire industry. While still priced out of reach of most individuals, workstations were cheap for corporations and universities; networks of them (one to a user) rapidly replaced the older VAXes and other time-sharing systems very much caught my attention… WHY? BECAUSE it’s great to know that UNIX hackers were actually the FOUNDERS of SUN MICROSYSTEMS no wonder why our PROGAPP teacher is so ino unix app…:)

I have NOTICED ONE THING.. UNIX was like the main OS in the past unlike today where MICOSOFT or MAC are the leading OS… I just never heard of UNIX before not until I stepped into my junior years in college..The mainstream of hackerdom, (dis)organized around the Internet and by now largely identified with the Unix technical culture, didn’t care about the commercial services. These hackers wanted better tools and more Internet, and cheap 32-bit PCs promised to put both in everyone’s reach. Because of this CAME THE FREE SOFTWARES where a Helsinki University student named Linus Torvalds invented LINUX. In 1991 he began developing a free Unix kernel for 386 machines using the Free Software Foundation’s toolkit. His initial, rapid success attracted many Internet hackers to help him develop Linux, a full-featured Unix with entirely free and re-distributable sources. Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet. Quality was maintained not by rigid standards or autocracy but by the naively simple strategy of releasing every week and getting feedback from hundreds of users within days, creating a sort of rapid Darwinian selection on the mutations introduced by developers. To the amazement of almost everyone, this worked quite well. So basically MOST OF THE THINGS THAT added to its foundation were mostly hacked by OF COURSE the hackers…

So with the growth of LINUX gave rise to the Internet.. The early 1990s also saw the beginnings of a flourishing Internet-provider industry, selling connectivity to the public for a few dollars a month. Following the invention of the World Wide Web, the Internet’s already rapid growth accelerated to a breakneck pace. he World Wide Web has at last made the Internet into a mass medium, and many of the hackers of the 1980s and early 1990s launched Internet Service Providers selling or giving access to the masses.

CONCLUSION: Based from what I have read and heard in the past, we see hackers now (like most of us – NOT ALL) as people who do things illegally and that is really unethical but from my observation MOST OF THE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND RISE OF THE KINDS OF TECHNOLOGY WE HVE TODAY IT IS HARD TO ERASE THE FACT THAT MOST OF THOSE WHO HAD CONTRIBUTED TO ITS FOUNDATION WERE HACKERS… RIGHT?

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