I read that among the Objectives the following terms are among those considered of prime importance concerning the 1.1.3 objective: GPL, BSD, Creative Commons, Free Software, Open Software, FOSS, FLOSS. Would throwing in a little of UNIX and Free UNIX OSes history be too much? I understand it's not a skill of much practical use, but having a historical perspective on why UNIX was born (out of the gradual abandonment of the grandiose MULTICS project and the need of Ken Thomson to let people run his Space Travel on an inexpensive system) and of what prompted people to reimplement UNIX as a free OS (let people know of the UNIX wars and the AT&T/USL vs. BSDI/UCB lawsuit) IMO makes a great introduction to one of the most prominent and worthy qualities of Linux. And it helps understand why there are these Free/OpenSource licenses and what they are designed to achieve. Does it sound too much to put on the list?
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