The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin
by Peter H. Salus
Publisher: Reed Media Services 2008
ISBN/ASIN: 097903423X
ISBN-13: 9780979034237
Description:
In addition to covering a history of free and open source, The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin explores how free and open software is changing the world. It is authored by Peter H. Salus, a noted UNIX, open source, and Internet historian and author of A Quarter Century of UNIX and Casting The Net and other books. Salus has interviewed well over a hundred key figures to document the history and background of free and open source software.
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