Free Software: a Look Back, a Look Ahead

Autor(es) Randal L. Schwartz

Macrotema Política / Filosofia

Horário 03 de Junho - sexta, 10:15/11:15, 41A

Descrição

Randal Schwartz looks back at two decades of his personal experience with free software, making observations about licenses, the history of free software, how contributions appear, and how everyone can contribute in some way to free software.

Currículos

Randal L. Schwartz

Randal L. Schwartz is a two-decade veteran of the software industry -- skilled in software design, system administration, security, technical writing, and training. He has coauthored the "must-have" standards: Programming Perl, Learning Perl, Learning Perl's Objects, References, and Modules, Learning Perl for Win32 Systems, and Effective Perl Programming, as well as writing regular columns for WebTechniques, PerformanceComputing, SysAdmin, and Linux magazines, and the electronic version of The Perl Journal. He's also a frequent contributor to the Perl newsgroups and the Perl Monastery (perlmonks.org), and has moderated comp.lang.perl.announce since its inception. His offbeat humor and technical mastery have reached legendary proportions worldwide (but he probably started some of those legends himself). Randal's desire to give back to the Perl community inspired him to help create and provide initial funding for The Perl Institute. He is also a founding board member of the Perl Mongers (perl.org), the worldwide Perl grassroots advocacy organization. Since 1985, Randal has owned and operated Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. Randal can be reached for comment at merlyn@stonehenge.com or +1 503 777-0095, and welcomes questions on Perl and other related topics.