March 2002
Beginner
240 pages
6h 19m
English
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Index
A note on the digital index
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- “community source” license of Sun Microsystems, Continuing the Fight
- “time bombs” in software, For Want of a Printer
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- Abelson, Hal, The Emacs Commune
- abstraction, designing Unix, A Stark Moral Choice
- Agre, Phil, Hack, Hackers, and Hacking
- AI Lab (Artificial Intelligence Laboratory), For Want of a Printer, For Want of a Printer, Impeach God, Impeach God, The Emacs Commune, A Stark Moral Choice, A Stark Moral Choice
- borrowing source code for, For Want of a Printer
- ITS demise, A Stark Moral Choice
- lock hacking at, Impeach God
- Symbolics and, A Stark Moral Choice
- Allison, Jeremy, The GNU General Public License
- Amazon.com, 2001: A Hacker’s Odyssey, Epilogue: Crushing Loneliness
- Andreessen, Marc, Open Source
- AOL (America OnLine), 2001: A Hacker’s Odyssey
- Apache web server, Open Source
- Apple Computers, A Stark Moral Choice, The GNU General Public License, Open Source
- open source software and, Open Source
- Argonne (Illinois), St. Ignucius
- ARPAnet, A Stark Moral Choice, Hack, Hackers, and Hacking
- Art.net, Small Puddle of Freedom
- artificial intelligence, Impeach God
- Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, For Want of a Printer (see AI Lab)
- Asperger Syndrome, A Portrait of ...
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