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Elements of Operating System and Internet History: A FreeBSD Rationale
Preface
This book is divided into three parts.
Part I, FreeBSD: Executive Summary, can be read as a stand-alone document. It serves as an introduction to FreeBSD and provides a rationale for adopting FreeBSD, when appropriate. This summary is intended primarily for relevant decision makers who are unfamiliar with FreeBSD.
Part II, Unix History, Open Source, and FreeBSD, provides an abbreviated history of Unix, open source, and open source licensing. This material is presented from a FreeBSD perspective and is intended primarily to augment Part I with additional background material, developed in greater depth. Particular emphasis is placed on open source licensing considerations.
Part III, Historical Trivia Relevant to FreeBSD, contains a number of historical items selected to further illuminate some reasons why things came to be the way they are in contemporary operating system and Internet engineering. Although the FreeBSD perspective is again present, Part III can be read as a general history of operating systems, Unix, open source, and the Internet.
Although numerous people have contributed to this book in many ways, special thanks are due to Chane Fullmer and Brad Smith. Chane Fullmer first prompted me to collect very rough material into a form somewhat recognizable as a book. Brad Smith read and commented on a draft of the entire book. Thanks are also due to a number of students at UC Santa Cruz and IIT Kharagpur, who contributed to the motivation to develop this material.
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