Z:gnu-www-ja-rieti--4e77b6-The lab where I worked at MIT/en

The lab where I worked at MIT was an exception though in the 1970s due to the fact that we had an operating system that was free software. Most computers were using nonfree operating systems at the time. But I was inspired by the example that I saw there and I learned to live in that way. I learned the way of life where you will teach your knowledge to others instead of keeping it all for yourself. Then this community died in the early 1980s. At that point, I started the free software movement. I did not begin free software. I learned the free software way of life by joining a lab where people already practiced it. What I did was to turn this into an ethical and social movement, to say that this is a matter of choosing between a good society and an ugly society, between a clean, kind, helpful way of life where we have freedom, and a way of life where everybody is in bondage to various empires that conquer them, where people believe they have no practical choice but to give up their freedom.