fOSSa Conference 2009 (Free/Open Source Software Academia Conference)
World Trade Center,
5- 7 Place Schumann
Grenoble, France
The history of FOSS can be traced back to academic origins: distributing source code under a permissive license was the de facto rule in academia in the 70′s. Since then, FOSS became a wide spread paradigm throughout the software industry, and its alignment with academic goals tended to be forgotten. Read more »