I Grew Out Of Free Software

Reflections on the ethics of software freedom

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When I was young, I read a lot about computers. I did this years before actually having access to one. I learned to program on pen and paper, imagining what a computer would do with my code.

Eventually, of course, I got my hands on actual computers. That, however, was not the big turning point in my computing life…