Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-kth--7bb5a9-When I entered the field, when/en

When I entered the field, when I started working at MIT in 1971, the idea that programs we developed might not be shared was not even discussed. And the same was Stanford and CMU, and everyone, and even Digital. The operating system from Digital at that time was free. And every so often I got pieces of program from Digital system such as a PDP-11 cross assembler, and I ported it to run on ITS, and added lots of features. It was no copyright on that program.