REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled
against the proprietary software model and Microsoft to create
GNU/Linux and the Open Source movement.
http://www.revolution-os.com/
In
1981 IBM decided to "open the architecture" of its Personal Computer
and so made possible for third party industries to start cloning it.
Thus the particular architecture, from a patent of a company, became
the standard in the computers industry , so that the "closed architecture" of Apple computers lost a tremendous amount of market share. Even today only Apple can manufacture Mac's.
In
a same way, the "open source" is a revolutionary model of software
engineering against the patented "closed source" models software's
created by companies like Microsoft.
