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The philosophy of a movement (1971-1984)
in 1971, Richard Stallman was a part of the MIT AI lab where he was exposed to many ideas that eventually led to Richard Stallman founding the Free Software movement -
1983 The free Software movement is formed by Richard Stallman
In 1983 the progenitor movement to the Open Software movement: The Free Software movement is formed by Richard Stallman(the man in the picture) based on ideals that he held and experienced working at MIT. source of the picture -
A movement gains it's foundation
In 1985, the Free Software Foundation was formed by Richard Stallman -
1989 GNU
This is when the first version of the Gnu public license was created, a stepping stone for the Free software movement. source for picture -
GNU public license v2
As the title suggests this was the release of the GNU public license V2 -
1992 GNU operating system
in 1992 the Gnu/Linux operating system was created, which ended up becoming a widespread system. -
Web Server
The Apache Web Server(being a very if not the most popular) was released -
1998 the Open Source movement is founded
In 1998 the Open Source movement was created as an offshoot of the Free Software movement, carrying it's more practical elements while being a more "cooperate friendly" version of the Free Software movement leading to other open-source foundations and licenses similar to the GNU public license -
Apache
In 1999 a prominent open source foundation was founded called the Apache Software foundation. source for image -
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microsoft open source
in the 5th of April 2004 even companies like mocrosoft had adopted some open/free source software, creating their first free software project wiX source for image (through google images) -
GNU public license v3
In order to keep bettering the notion of "copyleft" to make it more attractive (and comprehensive), the Gnu public license version 3 was released. -
Google's Web browser
Based on Chromium (which was an Open Source web browser), google used chromium to create the most popular web browser on the planet: Google Chrome -
differing opinions
because the GNU/Linux operating system had some non-free (free not in terms of money but in terms of sharability and access) elements, an alternative that was 100% free was made called "Linux-Libre" -
Android
Android became an extremely general purpose Operating system, which was created using the Linux kernal and other examples of Open source software.
