The origins of Free Software (or at least the GNU and GPL parts of the family tree) lie in this exact domain! In the late 1970s Richard Stallman wanted to patc

The origins of Free Software (or at least the GNU and GPL parts of the family tree) lie in this exact domain! In the late 1970s Richard Stallman wanted to patch a faulty printer given to his by Xerox. They wouldn’t ship the source code though unless he signed an NDA: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt Oddly, the HN post above this one right now on the front page is about Xerox source code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42884133 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42884133