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Mohammed Yousuf

Defining ’free’.

1. What first did Professor Leonard Kleinrock of UCLA achieve on September 2, 1969?

2. If one’s Web site had the message “Hacked by Chinese!”, which worm was creating havoc?

3. Of the two Nokia smartphone operating systems, one is Symbian. Name the other.

4. Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little co-founded…?

5. April 30, 1993 is a true milestone in Internet history because of a momentous statement made by an European institute. What?

6. In the context of software, expand FLOSS.

7. To whom is this quote about free software attributed: “To understand the concept, you should think of ‘free’ as in ‘free speech’, not as in ‘free beer’”?

8. Who made this statement on CNN’s ‘Late night edition’ in March 1999, leading to a much vilified myth: “…During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet”?

9. The distinction of having the second ever commercial internationalised domain name (IDN) TLDs is for which Indian language?

10. According to a recent list from Symantec of the ‘Top Web threats in the history of the Internet’, whose name led the rest?

1. Sent/tested out the very first message on the ARPANET, which later became the Internet.

2. The dreaded Code Red worm.

3. Maemo.

4. WordPress.

5. On that date, CERN’s directors declared that WWW technology could be freely usable by anyone with no fees being payable to CERN.

6. Free, Libre and Open Source Software.

7. Richard Stallman.

8. The then US Vice-President, Al Gore.

9. Tamil (in 2000).

10. ‘I love you’.

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