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RMS said one of the inspirations for free software was a particular printer he couldn’t get to work because of a driver issue. The company refused to give him t
by gentleman11 7y ago
RMS said one of the inspirations for free software was a particular printer he couldn’t get to work because of a driver issue. The company refused to give him the source code, and iirc said he was not allowed to write his own for it. He did not forgive or forget this slight, and we live in the world he helped create as a result
- consonaut 7y agoI did find it, it was Eric Raymond and "The Luxury of Ignorance" http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html
- gentleman11 7y agoI think I may have heard it from one of his talks. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/201cthe-printer-story201d-redux-a-testimonial-about-the-injustice-of-proprietary-firmware https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/201cthe-printer-story201...