Open Source Is Winning, and Now It’s Time for People to Win Too

As time went on, I started to use a growing number of programs that fit into this “free software” definition—Linux, Perl and Python were the stars, but plenty of others existed, from Emacs (which I use to this day), sendmail (pretty much the only SMTP server at the time), DNS libraries and the like. The April 2019 issue of Linux Journal is all about kids, but it’s also our 25th anniversary edition, so it’s an appropriate time to ask “What should we be teaching our children about open-source software?” Linux Journal has been at the forefront of the Open Source movement for 25 years now, pushing and encouraging us to imagine a world where software is of high quality, available to all, at low or no cost, and that invites us to experiment and tinker.

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