Z:gnu-www-ja-rieti--e972e6-I did not invent the idea of f/en

I did not invent the idea of free software. Free software began as soon as there were two computers of the same kind, because then people using one computer would write some software, and the people using the other computer would say, &ldquo;Do you know anything to solve this problem?&rdquo; and they would say, &ldquo;Yes. We wrote something to solve this problem. Here is a copy.&rdquo; So they started exchanging the software that they had developed, so that they could all develop more. But in the 1960s, there was a trend to replace it with nonfree software, a trend to subjugate the users, to deny users freedom.