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It's amazing to me that free software is still strong after all of these years. I can remember back in the early 90s being fed propaganda from my college profe
by ap22213 10y ago
It's amazing to me that free software is still strong after all of these years. I can remember back in the early 90s being fed propaganda from my college professors about "the communist" Stallman and his friends. They had made plenty of enemies back then and countless more since. Yet, they kept to their principles and moved things forward to the benefit of billions of people.
- digi_owl 10y agoThey made enemies, because oh so many wanted to bootstrap from academia into business by putting proprietary wrappers around freely shared code. But the GPL basically forbids that.
- madmax96 10y agoNevermind the fact that most researchers hardly ever publish their source code, and often when they do it won't build on anyone else's machines.