In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
first publication date: 1999
genre: essay
original language: American English
main subject: computer science
ebooks: on Internet Archive
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line is an essay by Neal Stephenson which was originally published online in 1999 and later made available in book form (November 1999, ISBN 978-0380815937). The essay is a commentary on why the proprietary operating systems business is unlikely to remain profitable in the future because of competition from free software. It also analyzes the corporate/collective culture of the Microsoft, Apple Computer, and free software communities. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Editions
4- date of publication: 1999ISBN-13: 978-0-380-81593-7
- ISBN-13: 978-0-06-183290-1
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