@barryfm, perhaps what you say is true. However, over time, views like these became radical, even if they weren't to the start, because the next generation was comfortable with proprietary and locked down devices.
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Right. One of the things I did try to say in my poorly-worded earlier comment was that hacker-culture people, a lot of RMS's peers, embraced the new proprietary licensing model awfully quickly.
Not all of them, to be sure. There seemed to be a big political division. And I wonder whether this was the first example of a theme we'd come to see repeated throughout the history of post-1980 free software.
Not all of them, to be sure. There seemed to be a big political division. And I wonder whether this was the first example of a theme we'd come to see repeated throughout the history of post-1980 free software.
Richard Fontana at 2014-01-14T16:49:52Z
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