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by gentleman11 2275 days ago
RMS said one of the inspirations for free software was a particular printer he couldn’t get to work because of a driver issue. The company refused to give him the source code, and iirc said he was not allowed to write his own for it. He did not forgive or forget this slight, and we live in the world he helped create as a result
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I did find it, it was Eric Raymond and "The Luxury of Ignorance" http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html
I think I may have heard it from one of his talks.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/201cthe-printer-story201...