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Old 21st March 2014
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Re: Pre-GNU free software:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Windo...m#Introduction
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Anyone who wants the code can come by with a tape.
It seems to me that this describes much of the "free software community" before GNU, especially at MIT (but also at other places). It's not a coincidence that Stallman came from the MIT/LISP community.
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