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Originally Posted by knc1
Which in turn inspired a person by the name of Richard Stallman to find (well, develop) a functional work-around -
Which in turn inspired deeper thought into the whole situation of closed (and/or tightly controlled) software -
Which in turn inspired his promotion of what is now known as the movement to produce "Free Source" software -
Which in turn ....
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
Good background, but it doesn't mention the connection with Richard Stallman, that will take you a bit of effort to find (unless you happen to know of it first-hand).
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During your research, you'll probably stumble upon this:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
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Name dropping? Who? Me?
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Stallman has done a great deal of good, but if you ask me, he's a bit of a crank in several areas.
His monklike fervor -- and belief that everyone should share that fervor -- has not escaped notice.
And I think he has an unhealthy obsession with Amazon, in addition to buying into the BPH propaganda a little too much for someone with his reputation for militant free-thinking.
