Pro-Choice: An analysis of the open source movements

The open source movement is not new. It’s not a novel buzzword thrown around by the media, and it’s not a passing trend. The concept of open source can trace its very roots to the origins of programming in the 1950s with the development of the PDP system (one of the world's first modern programmable computers) and then took off with the creation of Richard Stallman's (pictured at left) Free Software Foundation and Linus Torvalds's release of the first official Linux kernel. In some way, each of these developments has affected the economic, intellectual, and practical aspects of our increasingly technological society. The origins of the PDP system triggered the development of modern day software engineering; The Free Software Foundation champions copyright reform and changes to intellectual property rights; The Linux kernel has developed into one of the major challengers against the Microsoft Windows behemoth.

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