It is funny the way the more things change the more they stay the same. This is precisely the same type of situation that prompted Richard Stallman to create the Free Software Foundation to begin with. One day the lab bought a new, more reliable printer from Xerox. Unfortunately, the source code of the printer driver was not included in the package, and they were unable to put in place the same kind of maintenance set-up they had used before. Richard Stallman later heard that another scientific laboratory had a copy of the source code of the Xerox driver. When he tried to obtain it, he was told that the lab had agreed to keep the source code to themseves and not to make it available to anyone else.... Richard Stallman then decided to create the Free Software Foundation.
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It is funny the way the more things change the more they stay the same. This is precisely the same type of situation that prompted Richard Stallman to create the Free Software Foundation to begin with. One day the lab bought a new, more reliable printer from Xerox. Unfortunately, the source code of the printer driver was not included in the package, and they were unable to put in place the same kind of maintenance set-up they had used before. Richard Stallman later heard that another scientific laboratory had a copy of the source code of the Xerox driver. When he tried to obtain it, he was told that the lab had agreed to keep the source code to themseves and not to make it available to anyone else. ... Richard Stallman then decided to create the Free Software Foundation.