RMS started open source because of printer driver issues (he wanted the source code but wasn't allowed it and thought it as a betrayal of the hacker culture). This post is like history repeating itself.
While on the other hand, contemporary accounts date it to a Xerox 9700 printer at MIT in 1980.
I don't know. You could say in the 1980s the printer story sounded too absurd so they emphasized the clash of Titans aspect or you could say that we really like provincial origin stories these days so this "a simple motivated man with a great idea" framework is more appealing
This kind of stuff is fascinating; how history is narrated differently throughout time
For people uninitiated, the idea is materially, only discrete events happen. Stories are the narrative sense making humans project on them.
Speaking of RMS writings and your comment, he also wrote on free software v. open source. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Wouldn't go that far to call them hostile.
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.html
Actually pretty funny! I can't believe he wrote an article about it.
> For the free software movement, however, nonfree software is a social problem, and the solution is to stop using it and move to free software.
edit: of course it's a bit Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil, but it's hard to throw a rock without hitting an OSS advocate who thinks that Free Software is communist fascism.
Yes. I remember there was a 4chan Stallman interjector written in Perl. The script would reply to anyone talking about Linux with that text. I can't seem to find that code anymore but I found newer incarnations of the concept such as this Telegram interjector.
https://github.com/perronet/interjection-bot/blob/master/sta...