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you're never ever supposed to see it.
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Because...
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nobody really uses an Operating System,
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people use... programs... on their computer
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And the only mission in life
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of an operating system is to help
those programs run.
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So an operating system never does
anything on its own
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It's only waiting for the programs to
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ask for certain resources or,
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or, ask for a certain file on the disk
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or ask for the programs to
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connect them to the outside world.
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And then the operating system
comes, steps in and then
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tries to make it easy for people
to write programs
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And, What is Open Source?
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Open Source is a way for people to collaborate
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on software without being encumbered
by all of the problems of intellectual property,
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having to negotiate contracts every time
you buy a piece of software,
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have a lot of lawyers involved.
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In general, we just wanna get the software to work
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and we want be able to have
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people contribute fixes to that, etc..
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So we sort of sacrifice some of
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the intellectual property rights
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and just let the whole world
use the software
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Before there could be Linux
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There was Richard Stallman
and the Free Software Movement.
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They think of Richard Stallman as the...
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great philosopher, right.
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And think of me as the engineer
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Richard Stallman is the founding father of
the Free Software Movement.
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Through his efforts to build the
GNU Operating System.
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He created the legal, philosophical and
technological foundation