Revolution OS

I consider that the work in team is essential for the development of a company or a society. In addition, there is no meaning if a person is a genius and he or she knows a lot about some topic but does not share that knowledge. At the beginnings of the hardware and software development, most of the people and organizations tried to keep in secret their work they had developed and never shared the code of their programs. In one way it was a good idea because you might think that you are the only one who deserves to receive recognition or money for the effort and time you have put to write a piece of code. Nevertheless, I think that you can continue learning and maybe improve your results if you share your work so other people can learn from it and then they could support you.

It is quite common that you have spent hours trying to find a bug or mistake in your code and you never find it. Then one of your friends reads your code and in a few minutes he/she finds it. This is a good example on how can you benefit from the others.

I consider that in software production the idea of open source has been a crucial development. It revolutionized the way of thinking of all the developers. The movie describes the history of the GNU project, Linux and open source movement. Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds are two of the biggest figures related to the development of the OS. The philosophy of open source and free software can be compared to the idea of communism and capitalism.

In conclusion, I think that we should support the philosophy of Stallman. As a university student I would not have Ubuntu to make some of my assignments and use programs to write most of my code. It is important to support and learn from the others so you can get a good feedback that would enrich your life.