About Me
I am Shannon Sy Angto and I was born on April 27, 1989 at Makati Medical Hospital. I am the third sibling in our family. I finished my secondary education at Philippine Academy of Sakya in 2006. I am currently studying at De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde I am in my third year now. I am expecting my graduation on October 2009.
My hobbies are listening to wide range of genres of music, playing basketball, swimming, playing video game, watching movies, etc. I can say that I am a hard working person because I will not be satisfied until I get what I want in life.
My academic achievements are average compare to some of my schoolmates but I can work on it and finish the work in time. The time that I’ve spent in my academics is far more than an average student is doing. I am a person with a great sense of responsibility in life. I understand that in getting something you must work on it for you to deserve or get it.
I believe that in life you must peruse what you love and like because if you don’t the opportunity will just pass you by and once it is gone it is gone for good.
Afterword
This is the last chapter of the book but it is leaving us a lot of questions. The author also leaving us the query about the argument of the intellectual property in the open-source community. The author is expecting the open-source to be more dominant in the years to against the shelves software and I think that it is happening right now. Open source is making and will make our lives faster as the matter in fact there are a lot code repository in the net. Those code repositories are there for you to fork it anytime you need it and anytime you want it. Those repositories are making the programmer lives easier and better. Those code repositories can turn a beginner into an advance programmer. The author expects that open-source will dominate the market in the year that he said so and I think it did and it is continuing to get bigger as of the moment.
The Revenge of the Hackers
The title of the chapter is about the eruption that happened during the 1998. After 20 years of not being heard or being seen as an important people in the world, programmer or hackers became one of the most sought after people in the business world. The author wrote his book in 1996, the author was so fascinated that he himself was convinced that he was part of the open-source community. up to this day he is continuing his work about the web.
The Magic Cauldron
The chapter tells us how improtatn the open-source community is to us and I believe that too. The open-source community gave me a lot of answers to my questions. The open-source community gave me those answers even if I am not a hard-core programmer. The open-source can help a beginner programmer like me to know much deeper things about different languages and theories. The author tells us that even up to now he is continuing his educational research about the open-source programs as a big impact in the market today.
Homesteading the Noosphere
Homesteading the Noosphere is going into the minds of the Hackers. The hackers can change their thoughts and action in just a small amount of time, and that change can be good or bad. The things that the hackers do are their properties that are built for the open-source community. The author emphasizes that that change is constant and so it can change the ideology of the hackers in just a blink of an eye. Those changes can affect the world.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
This chapter tells us how Linux became what it is right now. It tells us how Linux can be a good programming foundation to learn. Linux as the author explains to us, it is doing the things in different yet effective ways and so the author called it as the Bazaar. The author also told us that it is a Cathedral because he has different approach to Linux and Linux has its own approach too. So, Linux is different from the author and the author is different from Linux, the two worlds collide to have a wonderful program.
A Brief History of Hackerdom
This chapter talks about the beginning of the programmers or hackers era during the 1980’s. Back then programmers are called hackers and that is why they called the chapter the History of Hackerdom. The hackers back then were came from different fields like engineering, audio hobbyist and eventually became a interactive computing era or also known today as the open-source era of hackers.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar – Introduction
The introduction part is about the history of technology specifically computers.
This part is talking about open-source contribution in the development of everything about computers today. It is also the history of good to bad hackers today. It made us also see how open-source can put the technological advancement so fast because of unselfishness contribution of all the people in the community.
The author told us to skip those computer technical steps and go to those stories that can help us excited about open-source technology. He also pointed out how imperfect but improving those essays are because of revisions of the members in the community.
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