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having to negotiate contracts every time
you buy a piece of software,
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have a lot of lawyers involved.
:04:10
In general, we just wanna get the software to work
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and we want be able to have
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people contribute fixes to that, etc..
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So we sort of sacrifice some of
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the intellectual property rights
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and just let the whole world
use the software
:04:31
Before there could be Linux
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There was Richard Stallman
and the Free Software Movement.
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They think of Richard Stallman as the...
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great philosopher, right.
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And think of me as the engineer
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Richard Stallman is the founding father of
the Free Software Movement.
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Through his efforts to build the
GNU Operating System.
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He created the legal, philosophical and
technological foundation
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for the Free Software Movement.
:05:04
Without these contributions,
:05:06
it's unlikely that Linux and Open Source
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would have evolved in to their current forms today
:05:12
I joined the
MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971,
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I joined... a thriving community of hackers,
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people who loved programming,
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loved exploring the what they could do
with computers.
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And they had developed
a complete Operating System,
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entirely written there.
:05:36
And I became one of the team, that
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continued to improve the Operating System,
adding new capabilities
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That was my job, and I loved it, we all loved it.
That's why we were doing it.
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And [clears throat] we called our system
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"the Incompatible Time Sharing System"
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which is an example of the
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playful spirit
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which defines a hacker.