Z:gnu-www-ja-rms-interview-edinburgh--61f3d9-So, I decided to create an alt/en

So, I decided to create an alternative, which meant, another operating system, one that would not have these unethical requirements. One, that you could get in the form of source code, so that, if you decided to learn to program you could understand it. And you would get it without betraying other people and you would be free to pass it on to others. Free either to give away copies or sell copies. So I began developing the GNU system, which in the early nineties was the bulk of what people erroneously started to call Linux. And so it all exists because of an ethical refusal to go along with an antisocial practice. But this is controversial.