Re: gEDA-user: Free Dog meetings at MIT starting this September!

[Dave McGuire <mcguire-atMUNGEDneurotica_dot_com>]

On Aug 21, 2004, at 11:33 AM, Al Davis wrote:
>>> Hey the MIT sounds familiar to me - didn't the free
>>> software revolution start there? Didn't Stallman work in
>>> MIT AI Lab?
>>
>>    Sigh.  Free software has been the way of the UNIX world
>> for decades.   Stallman *rode* it...he didn't invent it.
>
> If you read his own comments, you will see that he knows that.
> He was working on a project he thought was free, then the group
> leader took it proprietary, in effect stealing it from him and
> others in the development group.  The real intent of GPL is to
> protect developers from losing their own work.
>
> Check out history of Macsyma and Maxima for more info.

   I wasn't suggesting that Stallman didn't know it.  I was pointing it 
out because apparently some other people weren't aware of it.

   "Free software" (as in beer) isn't a new thing.  It's been around, 
thriving in HUGE volume, since long before the GPL existed and long 
before the term "open source" was coined.

           -Dave

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