{"id":25864,"date":"2014-09-09T11:43:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T15:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=25864"},"modified":"2014-09-09T11:43:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T15:43:49","slug":"a-visual-history-of-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/open-source-software\/a-visual-history-of-open-source.php","title":{"rendered":"A visual history of open source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    September 08, 2014,    10:56 AM  The open source movement has brought    good things to the lives of countless people around the world.    But have you ever wondered how it all got started? Check out    this infographic that walks you through the birth of open    source in the 1950s to today's thriving open source world.  <\/p>\n<p>      According to Piktochart:    <\/p>\n<p>      From operating systems to development tools and programming      languages to browsers and thousands of utilities and      applications, Open Source has led the way. Now, discover the      movement's history.    <\/p>\n<p>      More at Piktochart    <\/p>\n<p>            Image credit: InformIT    <\/p>\n<p>      Hat tip:       Arccore on Google+    <\/p>\n<p>    Note that I've only included a small chunk of the infographic    in the quote box above. Be sure to click through to see the    entire thing. I think it's a great visual representation of how    far open source has come over the years.  <\/p>\n<p>    The infographic is based on five Wikipedia articles. Here are    links to each of them if you want to enjoy some additional    reading:  <\/p>\n<p>    GNU Project    Open Source    Free    Software Movement        History of Free and Open Source Software    Open    Source Initiative  <\/p>\n<p>    LibreOffice 4.0 versus Microsoft Office    2013    Technology Personalized compares LibreOffice 4.0 to Microsoft    Office 2013, and finds that LibreOffice 4.0 holds its own    against Microsoft's office suite.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/open-source\/435105\/visual-history-open-source\/RK=0\/RS=8g.iQkUSGd5spKApMsG.4Y9G8ag-\" title=\"A visual history of open source\">A visual history of open source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> September 08, 2014, 10:56 AM The open source movement has brought good things to the lives of countless people around the world. But have you ever wondered how it all got started? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}