On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Alessandro Selli <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
As long as we don't have to change LPI to Gnu/LPI, I think it's okay. :) Just kidding, I'm actually surprised that no one has pointed out the Freeware vs. Free Software difference yet. I'd suggest some minimal amount of historical events, achievements, etc and leave expounding on it as a choice by the instructor, though. Regards, -- G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]> gpg id: EF9AAD20 _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
