[luau] Alan Cox Lecture Video: History of Linux

[Warren Togami]

Alan Cox of Red Hat (and unofficially Linux second in command) gave a
lecture that talks about the history of Linux all the way up to today's
current state of Linux, focusing mainly on the political side of things.

He starts from Unix, Minix, the beginnings of Linux, Richard Stallman's
Free Software Foundation (Copyleft Licenses), "free software" confusing
business, GNU HURD operating system, "Free" confused people so "Open
Source" began, benefits of open source code (peer review,
customization), internationalization, business use of Linux,
"Innovators' Dilemma", service based economy, usability and support,
high end computing,  political battles (DMCA and SSSCA) due to evil
music and movie industry, danger of loss of freedom on the Internet,
empowerment of free software (especially in 2nd & 3rd world countries),
national security, good for local economies because you aren't
continually handing over money.

Video: 43:34 minutes
Mirrored video downloads.  Please DO NOT STREAM THE VIDEO.
Real Player 8 - 14M megabytes
ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mplug/archive/2002/btlect_alancox_56k.rm
MPEG4 AVI (DivX compatible) - 145 megabytes
ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mplug/archive/2002/btlect_alancox_mpeg4.avi