There's no need to anticipate something that already existed. Permissive licensed user-developed projects existed a few decades before Stallman's involvement. Q

There's no need to anticipate something that already existed. Permissive licensed user-developed projects existed a few decades before Stallman's involvement. Quoting from the Wikipedia page on SHARE at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARE_%28computing%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARE_%28computing%29 : > SHARE Inc. is a volunteer-run user group for IBM mainframe computers that was founded in 1955 by Los Angeles-area users of the IBM 701 computer system. ... A major resource of SHARE from the beginning was the SHARE library. Originally, IBM distributed its operating systems in source form[1][2][3] and systems programmers commonly made small local additions or modifications and exchanged them with other users. The SHARE library and the process of distributed development it fostered was one of the major origins of open source software.