graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > rms's [...] done many things but inventing the idea of free > software isn't one of them
Yes. He launched the free software movement, but free software is as old as software itself. In the 60s, all or most software cam with source code and nothing prohibited or prevented recipients from using, modifying, sharing, or redistributing. In the 70s this started to change and in 1983 RMS launched a movement to bring these freedoms back. -- Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3 http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
