Ten things you didn't know about open source
One of the world's leading advocates of the open source software movement, Brian Bahlendorf gave a talk at the Digital Freedom Expo at the University of the Western Cape on Thursday, entitled "Ten things you may not know about open source".
Behlendorf was a key developer of the Apache Web server, upon which more than half the world's websites run.
Here are the ten things which you may well not have know about open source software.
1. Open Source predates proprietary software.
2. Apache kept the Web flat and free
3. Open SSL kept cryptography available to everyone
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