We look back on thirty years of Free Software Foundation (FSF), the organization strives to achieve free software, so software that everyone can at the source and that you can share freely without restrictions. In short, even some open-source software is not free software. The philosophy of founder Richard Stallman is the result of an incident with a printer and strengthened inter alia through the Lex Luthor in front of Stallman’s Clark Kent: Bill Gates
Stallman’s crusade actually began with a printer. He worked in the 70’s at MIT, where a high-speed printer from Xerox printing out a page per second. That was the time when most people still minutes at a rattling matrix printer were waiting. The printer only had one annoying issue: he regularly got stuck, leaving jobs accumulated in the queue
The designers at Xerox assumes that there always were someone nearby would be the device for paper jams. to solve. Stallman wrote a piece of code that users who sent warning orders if there was a physical problem and made sure that every X Job someone went to check to see that the printer ran smoothly.
Problem solved. In 1980 came a new printer from Xerox where RMS is the little program wanted to use, but Xerox did this time the source code under the cap. Proprietary software was becoming a trend in the mid-seventies (including Bill Gates called PC hobbyists to not unpaid use of proprietary code) while this was still a hacker culture that code in abundance was shared.
The Xerox incident RMS sent on his way to fight for free software (and free hardware) and on the way to set up the Free Software Foundation. Over the past thirty years he has solidified the organization for free software. He is so fanatically / paranoid that he can barely make use of software and hardware because almost everything is (partly) closed source.
According to RMS, we free ourselves from the tyranny of companies in the online world by fighting for free software, so that we can eliminate unwanted elements at will.
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