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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: Publishing Open Source Code with William Morgan
Description: In the late 1970s a printer at MIT kept jamming, resulting in regular pileups of print jobs in the printer’s queue. To solve this problem, some computer scientists wrote a software program that alerted every user in the backed up queue “The printer is jammed, please fix it.” When a man named Richard Stallmen was refused a copy of the program code, he resolved to create a publicly available operating system and the open source movement was born (opensource.com).Over 50 years later, open source has become a coding philosophy practiced by millions of software engineers around...