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1. vslira+8q[view] [source] 2020-10-15 13:22:43
>>pangor+(OP)
Friendly reminder that rms launched the FLOSS movement because he was incensed when he couldn't program a printer at MIT to do something he wanted.
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2. jandre+Ee1[view] [source] 2020-10-15 17:49:09
>>vslira+8q
I read Kernigan's memoir on Unix and one of the things that surprised me is how much of the book is devoted to Bell Labs trying to get their fucking printer to work. These are people like Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Alfred Aho, and the like wasting months on the broken drivers and flaky hardware of their document printer.
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