David Kastrup wrote:
Rjack <[email protected]> writes:
Thank God society has people like you and the F.S.F. to correct them concerning the error of their ways. I can't understand how society managed to make any technological progress before Richard Stallman and his acolytes invented Free computer programming.
No one at the FSF is threatening anyone for *not* using their code .. :)
They did not invent it. It was standard before the beancounters discovered that messing with access to programs they had no clue about could make them money.
The free software movement was a countermovement.
Proprietary people like Dennis Richie and Ken Thompson have been demonstrated to be real morons by failing to develop Stallman's brilliant insights.
Thompson/Richie developed and distributed Unix without commercial interest. The beancounters later pulled Unix under their control.
That is part of the reason that programmers nowadays are somewhat better educated to watch what work they are contributing to their company and under what conditions.
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