Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-kth--a4f6a5-Software is a relatively new p/en

Software is a relatively new phenomenon. People started distributing software perhaps thirty years ago. It was only about twenty years ago that someone had the idea of making a business about it. It was an area with no tradition about how people did things, or what rights anybody had. And there were several ideas for what other areas of life you might bring traditions from by analogy.