1999 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Dawn of the E-Lance Economy
verfasst von : Thomas W. Malone, Robert J. Laubacher
Erschienen in: Electronic Business Engineering
Verlag: Physica-Verlag HD
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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In October of 1991, Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old computer-science student at the University of Helsinki, made available on the Internet a kernel of a computer operating system he had written. Called Linux, it was a rudimentary version of the ubiquitous UNIX operating system, which for more than a decade had been a mainstay of corporate and academic computing. Torvalds encouraged other programmers to download his software — for free — and use it, test it, and modify it as they saw fit. A few took him up on the offer. They fixed bugs, tinkered with the original code, and added new features, and they too posted their work on the Internet.