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   Outer Colony Theropod (rk7@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 16:42:44 JST Outer Colony Theropod

   • xianc78
   • Pawlicker
   @PurpCat @xianc78 People really do forget the FSF basically was birthed into existence purely by the eternal fact of printers being shitty and a frustrated nerd being pissed he couldn't fix the driver.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 16:42:44 JST 翠星石

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     • xianc78
     • Pawlicker
     @RK7 @PurpCat @xianc78 It was made because he could fix the printer software and someone had the source code to fix it, but that person refused to provide it, as he had betrayed humanity by signing a NDA to not do so.
     
     This was the time before copyright applied to software, thus if you had the source code, you had the 4 freedoms.