11 Biggest Open Source Success Stories That is Changing The World As We Know It

[ Thanks to kiterunner for this link. ]

"According to Fortune, Open Source is slowly gaining acceptance in the corporate world. More and more corporates are beginning to see the merits of Open Source and have started embracing it. But all these changes didn't happened overnight. It was rather a painful journey. 'Sharing' was never a good thing for Corporates until recently. These changes were largely brought about by a string of Open Source success stories that happened over the years.

"GNU/Linux is probably the biggest thing ever happened with Open Source. Richard Stallman, founder of Open Source Free Software movement, spearheaded a project to build a "complete Unix-compatible software system" based entirely on free software(free as in freedom).

"Project was called GNU(GNU is Not Unix). During the same time Linus Torvalds built a Kernel(which is otherwise known as the heart of an opearting system) and made it Open Source. He named it Linux. The Linux kernel and GNU tools(libraries, compilers, text editors etc) combined to become GNU/Linux operating system(popularly known as 'Linux')."

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