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1980s – Free Software
- Richard M Stallman
- Researcher at MIT in the AI lab
- GNU project (1983)
- Free Software Foundation (1985)
- Activism and politics
- Licensing became important
- “Copyleft”, GPL v1 (1989)
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Notes:
2 key events:
Timebombs in the Scribe markup language
Bugs in printer firmware, no source