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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 16:42:44 JST 翠星石
@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.