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Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf2pfzzWPYE
60•schmuckonwheels•2h ago

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AlexeyBrin•50m ago
If you want to see the full documentary search for "Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age".
geremiiah•41m ago
In a parallel universe RMS read Ayn Rand, joined her cult of selfish greed and the world is running a closed source UNIX clone developed by JLU (Just Like Unix), the $5T corporation funded by him.

All of this to say, it's amazing how this man's personality had such a profoundly positive effect on the computing landscape of today and how different things might have been otherwise, especially because he's more the exception than the rule in terms of personalities in the hacker space.

dangus•33m ago
Well, a UNIX clone that was proprietary wouldn’t have become popular like GNU did. If you have to pay for it why not just use the real one?
runjake•22m ago
Full documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOP1LNr70aU

The bushy eyed fellow is Bill Budge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Budge

Wozniak and the Macintosh team in there, as well.

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