Z:gnu-www-ja-google-engineering-talk--c206b8-So free software existed befor/en

So free software existed before I started programming and I had the good fortune, in the 1970s, of being part of a community of programmers who shared software. So I learned about free software as a way of life, by living it. And I came to appreciate what it meant to be free to share with people, not divided from the rest of the world by attitudes of secrecy and hostility.