[HN Gopher] Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in ...
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       Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984 [video]
        
       Author : schmuckonwheels
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2025-12-27 21:15 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | AlexeyBrin wrote:
       | If you want to see the full documentary search for "Hackers:
       | Wizards of the Electronic Age".
        
       | geremiiah wrote:
       | In a parallel universe RMS read Ayn Rand, joined her cult of
       | selfish greed and the world is running a closed source UNIX clone
       | developed by JLU (Just Like Unix), the $5T corporation funded by
       | him.
       | 
       | All of this to say, it's amazing how this man's personality had
       | such a profoundly positive effect on the computing landscape of
       | today and how different things might have been otherwise,
       | especially because he's more the exception than the rule in terms
       | of personalities in the hacker space.
        
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