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Essay Collection covering the point where software, law and social justice meet.
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Free as in Freedom interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. It examines Stallman's unique personality and how that personality has been at turns a driving force and a drawback in terms of the movement's overall success. Free as in Freedom examines one man's 20-year attempt to codify and communicate the ethics of 1970s era "hacking" culture in such a way that later generations might easily share and build upon the knowledge of their computing forebears. The book documents Stallman's personal evolution from teenage misfit to prescient adult hacker to political leader and examines ho...
Freely available source code, with contributions from thousands of programmers around the world: this is the spirit of the software revolution known as Open Source. Open Source has grabbed the computer industry's attention. Netscape has opened the source code to Mozilla; IBM supports Apache; major database vendors haved ported their products to Linux. As enterprises realize the power of the open-source development model, Open Source is becoming a viable mainstream alternative to commercial software.Now in Open Sources, leaders of Open Source come together for the first time to discuss the new vision of the software industry they have created. The essays in this volume offer insight into how ...
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Provides an introduction to the GNU C and C++ compilers, gcc and g++. This manual includes: compiling C and C++ programs using header files and libraries, warning options, use of the preprocessor, static and dynamic linking, optimization, platform-specific options, profiling and coverage testing, paths and environment variables, and more.
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GNU Emacs is much more than a word processor; over the years it has expanded into and entire workflow environment. Programmers are impressed by its integrated debugging and project management features. Emacs is also a multi-lingual word processor, can handle all your email and Usenet news needs, display web pages, and even has a diary and a calendar for your appointments. When you tire of all the work you can accomplish with it, Emacs contains games to play.Features include:* Special editing modes for 25 programming languages including Java, Perl, C, C++, Objective C, Fortran, Lisp, Scheme, and Pascal.* Special scripting language modes for Bash, other common shells, and creating Makefiles fo...
The definitive reference manual for the most widely used C compiler in the world, written by the program's original author and its current developers. Learn how GCC supports language standards and extends support beyond them; how to fine-tune programs for your specific platform; and all the Objective-C runtime features. Also contains the complete list of GCC command options, and shows many features of GCC's language support. For intermediate-level and above programmers who know either C, C++ or Objective C.