Background

As the computer continues to become increasingly pervasive in our personal, social and working lives, the soul of the machine -- software -- is seemingly trapped in a battle of proprietary ownership.


In the early days of computing, it was customary for programmers to share software. Since the 1970s, however, much software has become proprietary, such that its users have been prevented from sharing, let alone modifying, programs. By the 1980s, proprietary software had become commonplace, and the computing community was losing the freedom to cooperate in using and altering software.
Freedom was under attack.

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