1980s – Free Software

• Richard M Stallman
• Researcher at MIT in the AI lab
• GNU project (1983)
• “GNU’s Not Unix”
• Free Software Foundation (1985)
• Activism and politics
• Licensing became important
• “Copyleft”, GPL v1 (1989)

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Notes:

2 key events:

Timebombs in the Scribe markup language

Bugs in printer firmware, no source